finding the path?

[stweelman]

I wrote an program that will need to shell out to MsPaint to edit a file. And just to be safe I need to confirm the path to MsPaint. Then open MsPaint with my (.BMP ) open.

[Compwiz]

Open the registry and read the data under the key name:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\MSPAINT.EXE

The data under (Default) will have the path.

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[Compwiz]

If it is not necessary to have only MsPaint to open the bmp, you could use the Shell function or the ShellExecute API function.

[stweelman]

not familiar with this, pleas explain?