Allusers windows 7 vista

Answered by:. Archived Forums. Visual C. Sign in to vote. I am required to create a Desktop shortcut to a specific folder from within my C program. I have two requirements. CreateShortcut Environment. GetFolderPath Environment.

TargetPath; MyDesktopShortcut. Save ;. In order to do that I need to obtain the path to Desktop folder, and in the first case I can easily do that using;. However, I am facing a problem when trying to get the path of the All Users Desktop folder. Of course I can hard code my program, but I'm looking for a way to acquire the path using some C method or something similar so as to eliminate obvious possible errors of those paths being changed by users.

What can I do? Friday, May 7, AM. I am not sure but, this should have worked. Alternatively you can use native win32 api to get all users path. If you can help, I'll take it! Googling it up to now has given me different results! Sign up today to participate, stay informed, earn points and establish a reputation for yourself! Log in. Asked 13 years ago views. Posted by: pmarshbu 9 years ago. Comments: Sorry Well, I used the search term.

If anyone feels like arguing the toss with Microsoft, feel free. Posted by: AngelD 13 years ago. TK, Yeah I read that from the link Ian provided. However I can't seem to understand how the "property acts differently depending on the operating system". If the user for some reason fail to provide the correct credentials password the installation fails. So it seems that on Vista a per-user install will be performed if the user does not enter the admin credentials meaning; normal user without elevation.

If you do not agree or have any real-life experience please post your details. Posted by: turbokitty 13 years ago. I just remember reading up on this a couple of years ago when researching a technical paper I was writing. It doesn't explicitly say that, but it's very odd that they call out XP and seperately when the behaviour is the same? Also, with Vista it doesn't automatically fall back to a per-user install The only way to find out is to test it At the command line.

Through a custom action. The user who launches the Windows Installer installation is not an administrator; or the user is running the installation on Windows Vista or later, the user is part of the Administrators group, and the user does not have administrator privileges by default. No — InstallShield does not set any related properties. At run time, the ReadyToInstall dialog does not include the buttons that let end users specify how they want to install the product. This is the default value.

The target system has Windows 7 or later, or Windows Server R2 or later. The product is not already installed on the target system. InstallShield displays the list of controls for the CustomerInformation dialog.

At the bottom of the lower-right pane, click the Conditions tab. In the upper-right pane, InstallShield displays the conditions for the selected control.

In the list of controls, click DlgRadioGroupText. InstallShield displays this control's conditions in the upper-right pane.