From: wsdng@... (Sascha D?rdelmann)
Date: 2004-03-01T18:39:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Profile-independent directory specification for NT?

KUSUNOSE Toru <kusunose@hcn.zaq.ne.jp> wrote:
> Using Windows Scripting Host, you can do:
> 
> require 'win32ole'
> shell = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell")
> ProfilePath = shell.specialFolders("MyDocuments")

Alternatively you can use the explorer's "Shell" object:

WIN32OLE.new('Shell.application') 

Access to the path is not as easy, though. You need to know some
constants which can be found in the Windows SDK. The good thing about
using those constants is that they are language independent.

Play around with the code at
  http://people.freenet.de/wickie/winshell.zip

Cheers
Sascha