Windows Special folders in powershell…
… or where is my wallpaper?
I wanted to edit the imagefile i had as windows desktop background so i wanted to find out the location of it. Excellent material for a powershell lession i thought.
So where are the special folders? Could it be here:
ls ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyPictures')
Found help about how to get windows special folders here and here.
What is [environment+Specialfolder]? Looks like it’s an enum.
IsPublic IsSerial Name BaseType -------- -------- ---- -------- False True SpecialFolder System.Enum So you can list all enum names like this.
A nice way to list all options for special folders is:
[environment+specialfolder]::GetNames([environment+specialfolder])
Desktop
Programs
Personal
MyDocuments
Favorites
Startup
…etc
Eventually i had to use the windows dialog and found out that the wallpaper was in:
([Environment]::GetFolderPath('ApplicationData') + "\mozilla\firefox\")
But i learned some new powershell.
