Sorry about the delay Andre, I had to go out. I'm using a stone age 32 bit system running XP Home, and %HOMEPATH% in the run dialogue puts me in: C:\Documents and Settings\{username} The final backslash which you included doesn't seem to make any difference. Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:50 AM Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Generic paths to user folders > Thanks Martin. believe it or not, I found the following works: > %HOMEPATH%\ > (smile)! > Can you do me a big favor and test this path using the run dialogue to > verify that it works on your computer too? > Andre > PS: thanks for the previous WordWeb help. Put that aside for a moment to > finish up on my current project but will get back to your information and > the other lister's info in a couple of days. Thanks. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:44 AM > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Generic paths to user folders > > > Hi Andre, > > Have you tried %USERNAME% as the username element in your proposed path? > One way to test if you have this environment variable set on your own > machine is to type: > > echo %USERNAME% > > at a command prompt and see what is printed in reply. > > hth > > Martin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:33 AM > Subject: [jawsscripts] Generic paths to user folders > > >> Does anyone know how I can create the path to a folder using a generic >> user >> path? I want to find the path to: >> C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft >> because I will have course not know what others use as their computer >> names, >> I would like to find a generic path that will open this Microsoft folder. >> For example, if you type the following general path in the run dialogue >> you >> will open the FS folder within the program files folder. >> %ProgramFiles%\Freedom Scientific\ >> I'm using Windows7 64. >> Thanks >> Andre >> >> __________� >> >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > __________� > > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts