Obtain Current Users %APPDATA% Path and not Admins

[gretty]

Hello

I am looking to get the path to the current users %APPDATA% folder.

Note: I am aware of the variable $APPDATA BUT if you run your installer with RequestExecutionLevel admin then $APPDATA will point to the admins roaming folder and NOT the current user's app data folder.

I need to find out the current users %APPDATA% path so I can write files to their roaming directory. Does anyone know how I can find this out?

code:
RequestExecutionLevel  admin



Section "Main"

    MessageBox MB_OK "AppData is: $APPDATA" # knowtice that its the path to the admins folder not the current user's

SectionEnd

[JasonFriday13]

Try 'SetShellVarContext current'. Probably won't work since the installer runs under the admin user account (can't test this right now because I'm on linux).

code:
RequestExecutionLevel  admin



Section "Main"

    SetShellVarContext current

    MessageBox MB_OK "AppData is: $APPDATA" # notice that its the path to the admins folder not the current user's

SectionEnd

[Afrow UK]

You should probably use the UAC plug-in to do this.

Stu

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Afrow UK

You should probably use the UAC plug-in to do this.

That plugin is horrible and should only be used as a last resort. I posted my recommended solution here