I use winXP.

For me,
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pro gramFilesDir
contained a value of: C:\program files

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pro gramFilesPath
contained a value of: %ProgramFiles%

which looks a lot like a way to refer to an environment variable.

Like using Windows start button|run
and typing:
%temp%
to get to the user's temp folder
%programfiles%
took me to my c:\program files folder.





Peter T wrote:

Hi Dave,

Do you know if this would work in the 9x series?

If sPath = "" Then
sPath = WSHShell.RegRead _
("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\P rogramFilesDir")
End If

Yes, that worked for me in W98SE when I ran your testme02 as posted earlier.

sPath = WSHShell.environment("Process")("ProgramFiles")
and
MsgBox Environ("programfiles")
both returned empty strings but without error.

FWIW, I notice that besides "ProgramFilesDir" I also have
"ProgramFilesPath", adjacent in the registry. Both show same path, as I
would expect but wonder why the two keys.

Regards,
Peter T

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Dave Peterson