What's the SpecialFolder enum member that has the base directory for the user?

Question

As far as I understand these are the best examples for each of the SpecialFolder members:

Desktop                 C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Desktop
Programs                C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Start Menu\Programs
Personal                C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\My Documents
MyDocuments             C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\My Documents
Favorites               C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Favorites
Startup                 C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Recent                  C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Recent
SendTo                  C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\SendTo
StartMenu               C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Start Menu
MyMusic                 C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\My Documents\My Music
DesktopDirectory        C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Desktop
MyComputer
Templates               C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Templates
ApplicationData         C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Application Data
LocalApplicationData    C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\LocalSettings\Application Data
InternetCache           C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
Cookies                 C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Cookies
History                 C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\Local Settings\History
CommonApplicationData   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
System                  C:\WINDOWS\system32
ProgramFiles            C:\Program Files
MyPictures              C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard\My Documents\My Pictures
CommonProgramFiles      C:\Program Files\Common Files

(Assuming the username is called ibboard)

So, there's no way to get the base user directory C:\Documents and Settings\ibboard? Really??? Don't tell me I need to "cd .." please.

Havoc

Answer 1

You missed to mention UserProfile, which is available since .NET 4, which will yield the user's directory:

string userDirectory = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile);

From MSDN (emphasis mine):

The user's profile folder. Applications should not create files or folders at this level; they should put their data under the locations referred to by ApplicationData. Added in the .NET Framework 4.

Liberality

From the looks of it, it seems that the OP is using .NET 3.5 of lower on Windows XP/2000. They may not have access to this enum member. – Wiedmann

Possibly yes. Otherwise the answer would be: not possible. (And if so, it is time to replace it) – Liberality