Where should my win32 program keep its files?

Question

Our win32 applications (written in C++) have been around for over 10 years, and haven\'t been updated to follow \"good practices\" in terms of where they keep files. The applica

Answer 1

There are plenty of environment variables like: %USERPROFILE%, %HOMEPATH%, %APPDATA% all of these points to some user-specific directories, where you can put your user-specific files.

For system-wide storage you can use %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, that is the place where you should put your read/write datafiles that are not specific to any user.