On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 05:08:42 +0700, JJ wrote:

I want to add special folders into the list.

Hi JJ,

Thank you for taking the time to share your Windows knowledge at the Usenet
potluck for Windows users.

The whole point of this Usenet newsgroup is to share your kind of value with
others, and to allow people now, and well into the future, to find and use
your shared value since this is the canonical archived newsgroup for Windows.

For example, the Network Connections:
Start Run ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

Nice. This worked fine on my WinXP & Win10 test machines (I didn't test on
Win7 because it's generally booted to Ubuntu lately).

Control Panel's Personalization: (long text warning)
Start Run ::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\0\::{ED834ED6-4B5A-4BFE-8F11-A626DCB6A921}

Another nice addition to our tribal knowledge, where I note for the
record this worked fine on my Win10 test machine but not on my WinXP test machine.

Because there are many special folders in Windows, and not all of them exist
on all Windows versions, and they also can be added by third party
softwares, I've made a VBScript to find those which are available in the
current system.
https://pastebin.com/ac5ytatL

Wow! That excellent contribution of intellectual vim value to the Windows
Usenet potluck will help many others, which is always our goal, and which
will be permanently available forever in the Usenet archives to benefit
countless others in the future.

This "listspecialfolders.vbs.txt" Visual Basic script worked BEAUTIFULLY
on both my WinXP & Win10 test machine, and, overall, we all thank you
for such an EXCELLENT method to obtain version-specific special folders
for _any_ Windows version.

1. Save https://pastebin.com/dl/ac5ytatL to your bin hierarchy, e.g.,
C:\app\os\bin\vbs\listspecialfolders.vbs.txt
2. Make a working copy (for modifications from the original), e.g.,
copy listspecialfolders.vbs.txt ListSpecialFolders.vbs
3. Create a listing of your Windows platform special folders, e.g.,
cscript ListSpecialFolders.vbs SpecialFolders.txt

In addition, you can instantly access that listing at any time, using:
o WinKey+R folders

If you prior set that file up in a uniqe-to-your-path AppPaths' key:
o HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\folders.exe
o Default = "C:\data\os\setup\SpecialFolders.txt"

To use it, run it using CSCRIPT from the command from like below.
cscript ListSpecialFolders.vbs

Since the list is pretty long (78 items in my Windows 7 system), the list
can be saved into a file by running it like below.
cscript ListSpecialFolders.vbs SpecialFolders.txt

Here's the list for my Windows 7 system. Windows 8+ would have a view more.
https://pastebin.com/C7PNyxJU

Since you archived the Win7 Special Folders, I'll post the results from both
WinXP and Win10 separately, for the benefit of those on all Windows platforms
WinXP: cscript ListSpecialFolders.vbs WinXP_SpecialFolders.txt
Win10: cscript ListSpecialFolders.vbs Win10_SpecialFolders.txt

And so that they'll be available to others in the future who run specific
keyword searches on the permanent searchable web archives at
o http://tinyurl.com/windows-server-general (30-character limitation)
o http://tinyurl.com/windowsxp-general (30-character limitation)
o http://tinyurl.com/alt-windows7-general
o http://tinyurl.com/alt-comp-os-windows-10
And:
o http://microsoft.public.windows.server.general.narkive.co m
o http://microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.narkive.com
o http://alt.windows7.general.narkive.com
o http://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com

There are some interresting/handy ones which are hard to find, or simply not
made accessible by default Windows installation. For example, a special
folder that holds the real complete list of all Control Panel items. More
than the one listed by the "All Control Panel Items". And a special folder
that holds the recently used folders (not files).

Nice clarification - thanks again for the level of detail, which is,
after all, how we each learn from each other about Windows every day,
and how we combine our contributions to increase everyone's Windows capabilities!

WinKey+R ::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}
WinKey+R ::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\0
WinKey+R ::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
etc.