Hello PytonCE users, have solved the question. The appropriate function is 'SHGetSpecialFolderPath': see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa931257.aspx
May be this info and the follwing code snippet is helpfull to others :) import ctypes from time import sleep HANDLE = ctypes.c_ulong HWND = HANDLE INT = ctypes.c_int BOOL = ctypes.c_int SHGetSpecialFolderPath = ctypes.windll.coredll.SHGetSpecialFolderPath # BOOL SHGetSpecialFolderPath( HWND hwndOwner, LPTSTR lpszPath, int nFolder, BOOL fCreate ); SHGetSpecialFolderPath.argtypes = [HWND, ctypes.c_wchar_p, INT, BOOL] MAX_PATH = 260 path = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(MAX_PATH) for i in range(0, 60): #[CSIDL_STARTMENU, CSIDL_PROGRAMS]: try: SHGetSpecialFolderPath( 0, path, i, 0) if len(path.value)>0: print i, path.value else: print i, 'not supported' except Exception, e: print i, 'exception', e sleep(5) Cheers rodi. _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce