Hi Kerri, type shell:appdata into the address bar (no spaces anywhere). On Vista this takes you to the Roaming sub folder of appdata, which contains the folders for the various programs. shell:appdata also works on XP and windows 7, David. original message: hello. this question is *not related to my former question, This is for a friend. She is running vista on her lap top but this occurs with her jfw 10 and 11. When she attempts to locate her application data folder, she hears, "this location is not available. c:\programData\aplicationData is not accessible. Access is denied. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx