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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:04

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Ted Lyngmo wrote:

>Is there some sort of posix placement for apps./files in Windows 
>nowadays? That'd be great!

Currently (Vista), C:Users/[UserName]/AppData/[Local or Roaming]/YourApp

If you use old code, Vista places your data in c:ProgramData/,
same folder structure as Program Files.
I have no idea how many version of Windows that will last.

You should be (for several releases of Windows now) using
the shell functions to get the data paths.
Such as SHGetFolderLocation and a few more SHGet....

You should be able to Google this group for code.

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