CommonAppData in vbscript

windows winapi vbscript windows-shell special-folders
Mephisztoe picture Mephisztoe · Nov 17, 2008 · Viewed 9k times · Source

A customer's application "AppName" has its configuration files stored in CommonAppData.

  • Under Windows XP that is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AppName
  • Under Windows Vista that is C:\ProgramData\AppName

How do I get the correct foldername with VBScript?

Answer

Tomalak picture Tomalak · Nov 17, 2008 
Const CommonAppData = &H23&  ' the second & denotes a long integer '

Set objShell  = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(CommonAppData)

Set objFolderItem = objFolder.Self

MsgBox objFolderItem.Name & ": " & objFolderItem.Path

The MSDN holds a page that lists the other Shell Special Folder Constants.

This page is nice, too: Enumerating Special Folders, part of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide. (Link is now defunct, but the Internet Archive still has a copy.)

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