>George,
>
>I already was going to make that suggestion, but that does not return the "Program Files" folder...(at least not on my W2K box).

Steve,

I should have mentioned that, in some cases, depending on the OS version, two calls may be necessay. The first, should return the user's personal setting. The second, should be:

? oShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersPrograms")