OSType for XP comes back WindowsNT! (??)

[eltrigo]

Hi, first post, please be kind

I use GetEnvironment to find out the OSType on the user's pc. Depending on what comes back, I set a path to the .ini I use for my app. The .ini is kept in the Windows folder.

We haven't run into any problems for years until now. For WinXP, the OSType comes back "WindowsNT!", for which I will set my path to "C:\WINNT"... which is wrong since XP's windows folder is actually "C:\Windows".

Has anyone seen this before and/or know of a workaround to determine between WinNT and WinXP for this matter?

Thanks.

 

[PBPro]

You should be able to use the function

Function uint GetSystemDirectory (ref string lpBuffer, uint uSize) Library "KERNEL32.DLL" Alias for "GetSystemDirectoryA"

OR

Function uint GetWindowsDirectory (ref string lpBuffer, uint uSize) Library "KERNEL32.DLL" Alias for "GetWindowsDirectoryA"

to get the system and windows directory respectively. Do you think that will help?

-PBPro

 

[hijklm]

You may be able to use some other check as a work around, such as checking to see if directories or files specific to Win XP exist or other Win XP specific things.