Re: API to find the location of a program


"Michael C" <mculley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Dave Boland" <NODARNSPAMdboland9@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I was looking through a list of API's that will return the full path to a
>>program. I didn't see anything so I hope someone here can help. For
>>example, if I'm looking for the location of "NOTEPAD.EXE". I would expect
>>this to be a registry function, but who knows.
>>
>> This will be a VB6 application. Thanks for any help.
>
> Why do you need to know this? The idea of having notepad in the path is
> that you don't need to know where it is.


It was an example.

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Mike
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