>>>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")

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>That doesn't return the "Program Files" folder either. On my machine, both of those calls return the "Programs" folder of the "Start Menu".
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>It appears "Program Files" is not a SpecialFolder. I wonder if it has low self esteem? <g>

Steve,

< g >

I think we're talking about two different things. I assumed from the question, that the person wanted the location of the Program Files shortcuts as opposed to the Program Files folder.

The Program Files folder isn't a special (and no, it doesn't have low self-esteem< s >) folder. The reason for this is that there's nothing that says that all applications must reside beneath it. OTOH, the location of the shortcuts most definitely has to be in one of two places to appear on the Start Menu/Programs menu. These are the All Users Programs and the user specific (under Win2K and XP) Program menu.

Sorry for the confusion.