Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition
GetSpecialFolder Method
 Scripting Run-Time Reference 
Version 3 

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Description
Returns the special folder specified.
Syntax
object.GetSpecialFolder(folderspec)

The GetSpecialFolder method syntax has these parts:

Part Description
object Required. Always the name of a FileSystemObject.
folderspec Required. The name of the special folder to be returned. Can be any of the constants shown in the Settings section.

Settings
The folderspec argument can have any of the following values:

Constant Value Description
WindowsFolder 0 The Windows folder contains files installed by the Windows operating system.
SystemFolder 1 The System folder contains libraries, fonts, and device drivers.
TemporaryFolder 2 The Temp folder is used to store temporary files. Its path is found in the TMP environment variable.

Remarks
The following example illustrates use of the GetSpecialFolder method:
Dim fso, tempfile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Function CreateTempFile 
   Dim tfolder, tname, tfile
   Const TemporaryFolder = 2
   Set tfolder = fso.GetSpecialFolder(TemporaryFolder)
   tname = fso.GetTempName  
   Set tfile = tfolder.CreateTextFile(tname)
   Set CreateTempFile = tfile
End Function

Set tempfile = CreateTempFile
tempfile.WriteLine "Hello World"
tempfile.Close