I am going to take a step further ... since you mention in your posting that you are looking for a file somewhere on a hard drive, BUT you cite as an example "winword.exe, wordpad.exe" I am thinking that you might be looking for a particular program.

Before you say, "Duh, Art" ... if you are looking for a particular program, then you may not need to search the path.

Just ask Windows to tell you the location of the program that is registered to open files of a particuklar type. For example, if you are looking for "Winword.exe" ask for the program that is associated with "DOC" files.

Is this the case?




>Hi All
>
>Does anyone know of a way to serch All Directories on a drive for a specific
>file and path. IE: winword.exe, wordpad.exe, HH.exe etc. etc. etc.
>
>This is necessary for first time install's to locate and store the path of
>needed functions for use with the new system.
>
>I have tried fullpath() and locfile()
>
>Is there a way use SET PATH TO to allow fullpath to serch the entire disk.
>
>Any Ideas?
>
Terry Mills