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I know that commonappdata (All Users) can hold system-wide application settings, but under Vista/7 non-elevated users can't write to that directory. Is there a folder which is shared among users and any non-admin user can write to it? Here is why I need this: My app is installed in PF directory by an Inno Setup installer with elevated rights. Then when the actual non-admin user runs the program, it copies its settings to the user's AppData directory using another non-elevated Inno Setup installer. Upon deinstalling the program (initiated by the system-wide installer with admin rights) I want

I'm trying to make my program save its state in the location set by %APPDATA% when the user is using Windows. However, System.getProperty("temp.dir"); does not return that. How do I get the value of the %APPDATA% variable in Windows, for the purpose of state saving? Use System.getenv() System.getenv("APPDATA") But I think System.getProperty("user.home") should be preferred even though it's not exactly the same thing because it is more portable. IceMan APPDATA is a Windows specific environment variable that gives you the location where application specific data is stored, so if you are not

This code not work set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell") oShell.Run "%appdata%\Test.bat",0,False But this code work set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell") oShell.Run "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Test.bat",0,False Why oShell.Run not find the file ? Lankymart @ansgar-wiechers is spot on about the ExpandEnvironmentStrings() as some of the other answers have suggested using it, but the documentation is clear; From MSDN - Run Method (Windows Script Host) The Run method returns an integer. The Run method starts a program running in a new Windows process. You can have

As above, how do I get the AppData folder in Windows using C? I know that for C# you use Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData Use SHGetSpecialFolderPath with a CSIDL set to the desired folder (probably CSIDL_APPDATA or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA). You can also use the newer SHGetFolderPath() and SHGetKnownFolderPath() functions. There's also SHGetKnownFolderIDList() and if you like COM there's IKnownFolder::GetPath() . If I recall correctly it should just be #include <stdlib.h> getenv("APPDATA"); Edit: Just double-checked, works fine! Using the %APPDATA% environment variable will probably work

I've got an SQL Server CE database in a project that I wan't to store somewhere in the %AppData% directory. However I can't find a way to make a reference to the Application Data path in the connection string (in the App.Config) <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <configSections> </configSections> <connectionStrings> <add name="EntityConnectionString" connectionString="metadata=res://*/EntityModel.csdl|res://*/EntityModel.ssdl|res://*/EntityModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlServerCe.3.5;provider connection string="Data Source=|ApplicationData|\Entities.sdf"" providerName="System.Data

On my system, %AppData% leads to ApplicationData which is C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming But there is also C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local And for some more confusion D:\Users\<USER>\AppData\LocalLow string local = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData); string roaming = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData); My question is, to which of these locations should my application save its data? Are there guidelines for which of these locations to use? And am I leaving myself open to problems if I choose the wrong location? The Roaming