Environment variables for office

[Gos]

Hi. For starters, I am not sure wether this is the correct forum to post this thread in, but here goes. ,)

My question is quite simple. Is there any variable, which is predefined in Windows, in order to get into the officeXP/2000 folder?

Like %windir%, %systemdrive% and so on.

The only differance is that it takes you into ./..../office10/ or ./..../office9/ .

--- Gos

[enuffsaid]

Microsoft uses "app paths"

Check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths.

You can define your own there.

[Gos]

Ah... Look there. Nice nice. Sounds great. =) I can use that.

So, I reckon no one know if there is any predefined variable then, or?

Under the key written above I found something OUTLOOK.EXE.... Under this key I found to strings.

(Standard) and path.

(Standard) is that path to outlook.exe and path is the path to "./..../office10", is there any way to... "execute" path so Windows will open that folder?

---Gos

[Radimus]

see reg.exe and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q130510/

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\OUTLOOK.EXE" /v Path

Kixtart is a much better scripting language than 'dos', but I don't know what you are trying to accomplish, or in what context you need this for

break ON

$office=readvalue("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\OUTLOOK.EXE","Path")

shell 'explorer /n,"'+$office+'"'