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From : Keith Anderson> I have searched all my Tip collections etc. and not found an answer for a> very simple question: how can I find out the Windows directory from Delphi1/2?
Here's code for Delphi 2.x: (don't know about delphi 1.x)
Function WindowsPath:String;
{returns the directory of C:\WINDOWS\ on the current machine}
var d:integer;
begin
setlength(result,500);
d:=getwindowsdirectory(pchar(result),500);
setlength(result,d);
result:=fixpath(result,result);
end;
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< from : Igor Ilutkin, More about Windows directory
function TMainFM.GetWinDir: string;
var
wd: PChar;
begin
wd := StrAlloc(256);
GetWindowsDirectory(wd, 255);
GetWinDir := StrPas(wd) + '\';
end;
function TMainFM.GetRunDir: string;
begin
GetRunDir := ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0));
end;