The Old New Thing

How do I get the path to the default user's profile?

November 21, 2013 Nov 21, 2013 11/21/13

Raymond Chen

A customer wanted to know how to get the path to the default user's profile. On older versions of Windows, the default location of the default user's profile was . Then it moved to . Now it's in . And the location may have been customized, so in principle it could be anywhere. The function to get the default user profile's directory is is ...