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

That doesn't return the "Program Files" folder either. On my machine, both of those calls return the "Programs" folder of the "Start Menu".

It appears "Program Files" is not a SpecialFolder. I wonder if it has low self esteem? <g>