How to detect letter of HD where $PROGRAMFILES is?

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atsukOctober 14, 2003 at 5:44 PM#

How to detect letter of HD where $PROGRAMFILES is?

in my PC i have $PROGRAMFILES in "D:\Program Files". I need to put the letter of default Hard Drive(where $PROGRAMFILES is) to the variable..any idea? tnx

Joost VerburgOctober 14, 2003 at 6:05 PM#

Use StrCpy to copy the first character.

deguixOctober 14, 2003 at 10:11 PM#

Like:

StrCpy $0 $PROGRAMFILES "" 1

Will return the drive letter used by $PROGRAMFILES in $0.

flizebogenOctober 15, 2003 at 5:18 AM#

Doesn't work for me

but the code below does

StrCpy $0 $PROGRAMFILES 1 0

atsukOctober 16, 2003 at 4:53 AM#

tnx