Merlin’s Delphi Forge

To found out the name of the Windows directory it’s best to use the Windows API GetWindowsDirectory() function.
Here’s the Delphi implementation:

uses Windows;
…
function GetWindowsDir: string;
const
(* The length of the directory buffer. Usually 64 or even 16 is enough
**
** Must be DWORD type.
*)
dwLength: DWORD = 255;
var
pcWinDir: PChar;
begin
GetMem(pcWinDir, dwLength);
GetWindowsDirectory(pcWinDir, [...]

Accessing Internet Explorer favorites is not hard since they are nothing more than files and folders. All you have to basically do is find the IE Favorites folder, then read it’s structure and file list. Once this is done you will need to read the URL that’s in each of the files. Sounds easy? You [...]