How do you determine Windows directory

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Is there a method in the .NET Framework that returns the path to just the
Windows directory?

The closest I've been able to find is System.Environment.SystemDirectory.
On my machine, it returns "C:\Windows\System32". What I'm looking for in
this case is "C:\Windows".

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim

 

[Angel J. Hernández M.]

Hi there... You can get what you want like this...

Aproach 1
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MsgBox(System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("Windir"))

Aproach 2
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Dim winfolder As String =
CType(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System).Split("\"),
String())(0) + "\" +
CType(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.System).Split("\"),
String())(1)

MsgBox(winfolder)

Regards,

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is there a method in the .NET Framework that returns the path to just the
Windows directory?

Windows directory:

'System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WinDir")'
'System.Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%WinDir%")'

- or -

Trick by Bill McCarthy:

'System.Environment.GetFolderPath(CType(&H24,
System.Environment.SpecialFolder))'

- or -

P/invoke on 'GetWindowsDirectory':

<URL:http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=#pJhic2CBHA.2200@tkmsftngp07>

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

Thanks everyone -- the first approach is what I was looking for. Completely
forgot about the environment variables...

Richard Rosenheim