Windows Vista junctions points, MUI and localized folder names

re: Windows Vista junctions points, MUI and localized folder names

Phil Jollans — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:49:12 GMT

Hi Carlos, I just came across this blog by chance and it reminded me that I read a blog by Michael Kaplan about the same subject.

blogs.msdn.com/.../1487464.aspx

It's quite old now, but may still be interesting.

Phil

re: Windows Vista junctions points, MUI and localized folder names

Robert — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:32:08 GMT

I am having real problems with the old version of this system. I have many VBA scripts written on a machine with English XP installed and I've just set up a Portuguese XP machine. Most of my data files are in a folder that I added to the Models (Modelos in PT) directory and which I access in code like this, TXTpath = (Options.DefaultFilePath(2) & "\TXT\").

However I have a couple of very basic scripts that use the shell command to open these text files in Wordpad. The problem is that Wordpad is in %PrgramFiles%WindowsNT/Accessories/ but in the PT version that has changed to %PrgramFiles%WindowsNT/Accesórios on the hard drive itself - that's the real folder name.

I have not been able to find any way of getting a handle on that withou simply hardcoding the folder name - a terrible sin in my opinion!

So I end up with this:

FilePath = TXTpath & "List.txt"

CMDLine = "C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessórios/WORDPAD.EXE " & FilePath

RetVal = Shell(CMDLine, 1)

which is horrible. Any suggestions?

Thanks

re: Windows Vista junctions points, MUI and localized folder names

Erwin Ried — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:18:45 GMT

Saludos Carlos, tengo una duda sobre este tema (justo andaba buscando en la red y encontré tu blog), conoces forma de quitar esta localización? (me refiero a no ver "Archivos de programa", sino el real "Program files").

Me ahorrarías "investigación" si me dices que lo intentaste.

Gracias de antemano, saludos

re: Windows Vista junctions points, MUI and localized folder names

Ola Dunk — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:33:20 GMT

I just saw the same thing. When opening my Vista c-drive remotely from an XP computer (\\vistamachine\c$), I found both the localized and the english folder names. Only the english ones were accessible.