But I am trying to get to the Personl folder of the current user in windows 7. Now there are two special folders: MyDocuments and Personal However they both lead to C:Users{USERNAME}Documents Shouldn't Personal lead to one back from that?
View 3 RepliesWith my new user namewhen I press a custom tool button, I receive an error message saying that it can't find Personal.xls at the XLStart location under the old user name.Personal.xls from the new XLStart folder is properly open and hidden.
View 2 RepliesHow would I get the current user's folder?Example:"C:Documents and SettingsOwner"
View 1 RepliesI've been searching for a while, but it seems that I can't find an easy way to get the current user profile folder. I've tried "%userprofile%" environment variable, but it didn't worked (or I'm doing something wrong).How can I do it? I want to add the value to an string variable.
I actually tried something like: Dim Userfolder As String = %UserProfile%
I tried with quote marks too, but none seems to do the trick.What I'm missing?
How do I get the startup folder path for "Current user" and "All user" in VB.net?
View 2 RepliesI have tried multiple ways of grabbing the username of a current logged on user in vb.net/asp.net. I am running it on IIS 6 and understand that it will return NETWORK SERVICE for the username. I need to grab the username of the actual windows box log on.I have tried the following code: Returns NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE
Dim User = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent.User
Dim UserName = User.Translate(GetType(System.Security.Principal.NTAccount)).Value
This is the function that I use in web service for getting current windows user.
<WebMethod()> _
Function User() As String
Dim p() As String = Split(My.User.Name, "")
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When I run service on localhost it realy return current windows user name!The problem is when i run service from remote PC, in that case I got nothing from this function. What is problem with this service, and how I can get name of Windows user?
I've set up an application that runs as a service, auth'd as LocalSystem. One of it's functions is to establish the logged in windows user's username.All I'm getting with the following is either the SID or username of the user (localsystem) running the service.
my.user.name
WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().User
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This is the function that I use in web service for getting current windows user.
<WebMethod()> _
Function User() As String
Dim p() As String = Split(My.User.Name, "")
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I developed a windows service project using vb.net and windows service is installed with logon account as admin's user name and password. Target of windows service is to read the pst file path location from windows registry for currently logged user by accessing the following registry key
"HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows Messaging SubsystemProfilesOutlook52a407cf2e436a4d8fe252d1d257465501f6700".
The problem is , windows service can able to read the admin pst file path location if admin is logged in windows. When other user logged in windows, service is not able to read currently logged user's pst file path location from registry because of windows service is configured with admin user name and password. so it always reads admin's pst file location.
I wanted to give my user an option for "Start with Windows". When user check this option it will place a shortcut icon into Startup folder (not in registry). On Windows restart, it will load my app automatically.
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View 2 RepliesI've been looking around for a way to check if the current user has Administrator rights but the information seems to be quite disperse and not exactly
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View 1 RepliesI need to read the distinguished name of the current user (the one running the program) from Active Directory.I'm warm (I know I should use System. DirectoryServices and DirectorySearcher), but somehow I can't get the code to work properly, nor can I find a working example.Now, after having spent hours searching for examples on the internet, I'm getting quite frustrated with myself, so I turn to you hoping someone can provide an example.Why I need this: when people run this program, it needs to detect which OU they belong to. We have several sites (for example Rotterdam and Amsterdam) and depending on what site the user's OU is, I need to perform some actions. So I hope to derive f.e. "OU=Rotterdam" from their DN.
View 3 RepliesI want to allow a user to click a button that will launch Windows Explorer and go straight to the My Pictures folder when I don't know who the current user is.
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How to get the User (Username) folder? I mean C:/Users/Username, D:/Users/Username or C:/Documents and Settings/Username ...Don't remeber exactly
View 2 RepliesIf I don't grant write permissions to the folder containing my exe file, I get an 'Access to the path binReleaseprogram.exe' is denied. But if I grant it write permission I don't get the error. Why would the executable need write permissions? I'm not writing anything to the root where it resides.
View 1 RepliesIf I adjust permissions using the Security.Accesscontrol.DirectorySecurity on a directory, how can I make it so that subfolders automatically inherit the new permissions?
Brief overview of the situation is that my neighbors can't connect their Vista laptop to a shared folder on their computer running XP Home. They're getting access errors which I believe is because of the rights set on the folder. The problem is that XP Home won't let you adjust that and they're not upgrading.
I'm able to add the Everyone user to the directory I specify. But if I drag a new folder in or create a new folder, it does not have the Everyone user. Is there something I'm missing in this class that will let subfolders and files inherit the permissions?
I have a script that checks a version table from one mdb (server) and compares it to the same table in another mdb (user folder), if the version number is mismatched it needs to replace that file from the server, to the user folder. The problem is, how to get the OLEDB connection to the user folder since, the folder destination is
E:Configurator & UserName & Detail2004.mdb
How to set this up?
Here is my code:
Dim UserName As String = Environment.UserName.Substring(Environment.UserName.LastIndexOf("") + 1)
Dim connectionString2 As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source=C:Configurator" & UserName & "Detail2004.mdb"
Dim con2 As New Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString2)
Dim cmd2 As Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
I am creating a VB .NET app that uses the user's Application Data to store data. Can an unprivileged user create a folder in the top level of their Application Data directory? I am trying to create the app's folder if it doesn't already exist for that user.
View 3 RepliesHow would i create and make a folder hidden from user?
View 3 RepliesI want to create several folders on a specified drive, some are up to 3 levels deep such as x:users\%username%Documents
%username% would be a folder created after the users actual user name
What I would like to be able to do is create these folders for each username that resides on computer including the "default user" however the rest of the built in windows accounts I do not need to do this with.
I then want to change the registry setting under each user, for example these two keys (their are more keys however but they all follow this except for the last part of the key where instead of personal it would be named videos or something):
HKUS-1-5-21-9999999999-999999999999-9999999999999-1002SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerShell FoldersPersonal: "C:UsersTest UserDocuments"
HKUS-1-5-21-9999999999-999999999999-9999999999999-1002SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell FoldersPersonal: "%USERPROFILE%Documents"
specifically this value needs to change "C:UsersTest UserDocuments" and this one "%USERPROFILE%Documents"
However it is my understanding that this key is specific to each user based on the S-1-5-21-999999999999-999999999999 number which I believe is referred to a GUID.
I know how to create a folder, I know how to change other registry settings that have integers but I am stumped on this.
I want to store my log files in the user's Application Data folder (to avoid all the hassle with Windows 7/Vista UAC permissions). By default, though, the app creates the folder structure like thisAppData/CompanyName/AssemblyName/AssemblyVersion/I just want a single folder without the AssemblyName and AssemblyVersion. Other than removing that info from the project, is there any other to just create a single
View 1 Replieshow can any windows xp program delete folder application in visual basic .net 2008?
View 1 RepliesHow to know that if the current user is an administrator or normal user or guest?
And how to make the exe can just only run in administrator?
I have tried to set the .manifest to "<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />", but no use. Although I am not logged in as admin, I can still run the exe.
how to copy, delete, show files, show current directory, change directory, make folder, rename folder. My problem is i have a method on deleting a file and copying a file, but i don't know how to pass the method so that when i click the delete button it would let me choose what file to delete. By the way im using buttons on each function.[code...]
View 2 RepliesI need to know how to get the current exe folder, but how to do this? (So the folder where the exe is in).
View 2 RepliesBasically I am trying to enable the user the ability to select a folder and the folders music files populate a list box. I want two list boxes on the page, one with all the contents of the folder and then the other one for files selected from the first box. I have no clue on how to do this at all...
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