Enumerate all

Hi!
I want to write a code to enumerate through all the folders in the Windows shell, to find a specific file. I know how to navigate to any folder using things like IShellFolder and IEnumIdList interfaces, FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions, but don’t know how to write it to begin at the desktop and go automatically through each and every folder in the shell. Can anyone point me to a code or an article that explain this kind of enumeration? Or give me some instructions for doing it?
Thanks in advance.

>> but don’t know how to write it to begin at the desktop
For those who are confused, I believe he means "desktop" as in, the root of the tree control in windows explorer.

We'll start with the drives under "My Computer".
GetLogicalDrives()
GetDriveType()
GetVolumeInformation()

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Thanks for that.
Actually, I’m mostly confused about the algorithm that automates the navigation. If you can show me the basic structure of the algorithm, it would be a great help.

>> I know how to navigate to any folder using things like IShellFolder and IEnumIdList interfaces, FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions
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>>I’m mostly confused about the algorithm that automates the navigation

This doesn't make alot of sense - you now know how to search every single file on every single storage device on your computer - what else do you want to do??

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If I’m to right a code to go to and find files in a folder any where in the hierarchy in a direct manner, I’m all right. For example, I can find my way to C:\Program Files\WinZip, and find all the text files there. But if I have to write it to enumerate through all the folders under C:\ in the hierarchy, and find all the text files within C:\, I can’t figure out how to do that.

There's a win32 example at the bottom of the page in this cprog faq (Accessing a directory and all the files within it) that you may find helpful.

>>I know how to navigate to any folder using things like ... FindFirstFile and FindNextFile functions
There's the disconnect - FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile() is how you do it :)

Here is a tutorial on the API's that might help as well.

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You should also just do yourself a favor get the Platform SDK since it has thorough examples of how to do this.