>MS did something -very- neatly in the move to Win98 and Win2K, and provided for the Win95/NT people, too. They defined a set of CSIDLs - Common System Identifier Locations - and added a new set of API calls to retrieve the folders associated with them, like SHGetFolderLocation, SHGetFolderPath, SHGetSpecialFolderLocation, and SHGetSpecialFolderPath, and then provided a .DLL that can be dropped onto existing older systems called SHFOLDER.DLL, that's freely redistributable, does not require any special treatment other than to place it in the Windows search path, and implements at least a major subset of the CSIDL sets for the older OSes.

Sounds like a system-wide version of HOME() and _SAMPLES. Thanks for all the info.

Tamar