Thread: History Folder

Is there a way to find the default history folder? I thought there was, but I could only find default system folder and default windows folder. thanks in advance.

thanks.

Help me out with how to get this value now. I get success on the first function, but the second fails. I don't even know if the second is the correct function.

PHP Code:

if(
  RegOpenKey(
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
    "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders",
    &key) != ERROR_SUCCESS
)
      { MessageBox(hwnd, "Error opening key", "Error", 0); }
if(
  RegQueryValue(
    key,
    "History",
    buffer,
    &ret) != ERROR_SUCCESS
)
      { MessageBox(hwnd, "Key Reading Error", "Error", 0); } 


By the way, the \ in the text are actually double \s

We figured something similar out later on in the forums, but just to make your question complete:

Code:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
 char HistoryFolder[301];
 DWORD DataType = REG_SZ;
 DWORD BufferLength = 300;
 HKEY hKey;

 RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders", 0, KEY_READ, &hKey);

 RegQueryValueEx(hKey, "History", 0, &DataType, (BYTE *)HistoryFolder, &BufferLength);

 MessageBox(NULL, HistoryFolder, "The history folder is..", MB_OK);

 return 0;
}

(Note: The message board broke the subkey string - that is supposed to be a continuous string)