Searching all drives for a file

[solidjp]

In my VB application, I have command buttons set up so when a user clicks on one of them an application executes. If the path to that exe is not the default location, I need it to then search all the drives mounted on that particular machine until it finds that exe name. So what is the call to that particular Search function? Is it an API call or is it something else?

Thanks

 

[Hypetia]

You should get the list of all drives using GetLogicalDriveStrings API function.

After that you need to search each drive one-by-one using file searching API functions. They are FindFirstFile, FindNextFile and FindClose.

 

[CajunCenturion]

You can also perform the search using the methods of the FileSystemObject, or the intrinsic Dir function.

Good Luck
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