Folder locations

Last Updated on Friday, 30 November 2012 13:53 Tuesday, 04 October 2011 15:47

I have used short forms for some folder names in the articles. Some folder paths are different in Windows XP and Vista/7 . These are as below.

%Profiles% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings

%Profiles% in Windows Vista, Windows7 and 8
C:\Users
%UserProfile% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]

%UserProfile% in Windows Vista, Windows7 and 8
C:\Users\[UserName]

%AllUsersProfile% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users

%AllUsersProfile% in Windows Vista and Windows7
C:\Users\Public

%AppData% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data

%AppData% in Windows Vista, Windows7 and 8
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming

%Local Application Data% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data

%Local Application Data% in Windows Vista and Windows7
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local

%Common AppData% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data

%Common AppData% in Windows Vista and Windows7
C:\ProgramData

%Programs% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs

%Programs% in Windows Vista and 7
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

%CommonPrograms% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs

%CommonPrograms% in Windows Vista and 7
C:\Program data\Microsoft\Windows\Startmenu\Programs

%LocalSettings% in XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Local Settings

%LocalSettings% in Windows Vista and 7
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local

%Templates% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Templates

%Templates% in Windows Vista/ 7
C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates
%MyDocuments% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\My Documents

%MyDocuments% in Windows Vista
C:\Users\[UserName]\My Documents

%MyDocuments% in Windows 7
Libraries>Documents>My Documents
%CommonDocuments% in Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents

%CommonDocuments% in Windows Vista
C:\ProgramData\Documents

%CommonDocuments% in Windows 7
C:\Users\Public\Documents