Finding Files

[DLG]

What is the best way to search a user's hard drive to find the location of
known files? I have users with multiple versions of MS office and I need to
confirm where certain applications are installed.

[kHSw]

Why don't you have a look in the registry (InstallRoot)?

Here's an article that should point you in the correct direction:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...364611033.aspx
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What is the best way to search a user's hard drive to find the location of
known files? I have users with multiple versions of MS office and I need
to confirm where certain applications are installed.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"DLG" <de******@hotmail.com.nospam> schrieb:

What is the best way to search a user's hard drive to find the location of
known files? I have users with multiple versions of MS office and I need
to confirm where certain applications are installed.

If you are looking for a multithreaded solution:

<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/samples/filesystem/FileSystemEnumerator.zip>

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[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Herfried,

If you are looking for a multithreaded solution:

I did not look at your solution however I direct will accept that it will be
as normally from you very fine.

However, what is the reason for multithreading in this. I had long
discussion online and offline with Jon when he was creating his pages about
multithreading about the sense of multithreading, (where to use and where
not).

About this there was not any discussion (in that time he gave me at least
the idea that he thought that it was good to use it everywhere).

Multithreading by disc access will probably only give longer processing
time and an earlier need to renew your discs because of the rumbling you are
creating.

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Cor,

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <no************@planet.nl> schrieb:

Multithreading by disc access will probably only give longer processing
time and an earlier need to renew your discs because of the rumbling you
are creating.

The class uses multithreading in order to decouple the UI from scanning the
harddisk. This doesn't have a negative impact on the disk, but it increases
the user experience.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Herfried,

Clear, however in my opinion you should write this next time, I was thinking
that there where 20 searches starting in the same time (easy to do with
Queu, however only time consuming and probably gives it as well a lot of
rumble).

I have seen people asking for that in these newsgroups.

This means something as "doing the search in a seperated thread"

:-)

Cor