Sorry I took so long getting back. There were some user issues, and other things to distract me for a while.

I chose to work with the approach offered below because I wasn't familiar with WScript.Shell (although both suggested approaches look clean). In any case, this solution worked like a charm.

With only a folder name, and the third line below for me to add, everything was done.
cUprof = GETENV("USERPROFILE")
cDesktopFolder = ADDBS(m.cUprof) + "Desktop\MyFolderName"
MkDir (cDesktopFolder)

I do have my own wrapper around MkDir though, in case there's already a folder there by that name.

Thanks
Bob


>>I can create a folder programatically from VFP as C:\stuff, but I want to create it on the Windows desktop, and create files from VFP and put them into that folder that's on the desktop. What's the right way to reference the desktop so that I can do this?
>>
>>Bob
>
>It can be referenced as a regular folder, i.e.
>C:\Users\yourUsername\Desktop
>or better yet
>

>cUprof = GETENV("USERPROFILE")
>cDesktopFolder = ADDBS(m.cUprof) + "Desktop"
>