Re: can't open amaya in winXP - other users

   I think I found what you want. Try GetUserProfileDirectory 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/policy/policy/getuserprofiledirectory.asp). 
Use the parameter hToken as NULL.

   Best,
   Maurício

> Hello Mauricio,
> 
> Right now we don't have any special code for Windows XP. The
> default behavior for Windows NT is used throughout. That is, 
> the users Amaya directory is considered to be
> 
> 	windowsdir\profiles\username\appname
> 
> Where windowsdir is returned by the GetWindowSDirectory() WIN32
> system call. It is the syscall that is returning winnt and not something
> hardcoded into Amaya. If you get it, maybe you presevered your Amaya
> thot.rc file from a previous Windows (non XP)? Or maybe it's normal
> it returns this value.
> 
> Can you tell me what is convention for Windows XP (or quote
> a reference). Also, if you know what is the syscall to get that
> directory, that could save us time!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> -jose
> 
> application directory preferences directory is stored in
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:21:32AM -0500, Maur?cio wrote:
> 
>>  I have this problem too. It seems that Amaya looks for the 
>>configuration file in c:\winnt\profiles\user_name instead of the right 
>>directory (c:\Documents and Settings\user_name). I don't remember what 
>>is the right way to get the correct profiles directory under windows, 
>>but I remember there's some function that do that.
> 
> 
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