Enumerating the Items in a Special Folder
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide
After you have connected to a special folder, you can enumerate the items within the folder the same way you enumerate the files found in a standard file system folder. This allows you to do such things as identify the administrative tools or the control panel applications that are installed on a computer.
For example, Listing 11.7 contains a script that lists the administrative tools installed on a computer. To carry out this task, the script must perform the following steps:
1. | Create a constant named ADMINISTRATIVE_TOOLS and set the value to &H2f&. |
2. | Create an instance of the Shell object. |
3. | Use the Namespace method to return a Folder object representing the Administrative Tools folder. This is done by passing the constant ADMINISTRATIVE_TOOLS as the parameter for the Namespace method. |
4. | Use the Items method to return the folder items (the installed administrative tools) within the folder. |
5. | Create a For Each loop to iterate all the folder items. |
6. | Echo the item name. |
Listing 11.7 Enumerating Installed Administrative Tools
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Const ADMINISTRATIVE_TOOLS = &H2f&
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(ADMINISTRATIVE_TOOLS)
Set colTools = objFolder.Items
For Each objTool in colTools
Wscript.Echo objTool
Next
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