Find file (.exe) from file name (path unknown)

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I have an automation that needs to run j2plauncher.exe. The location of this file differs from machine to machine so I can’t search for it in a given folder/directory. How can I get the full location path of this file, simply by providing the file name?

Thanks in advance!

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Search for j2plauncher.exe in the registry and you should be able to find a registry key containing the path to the file, which you can then get in your automation.

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Thanks for the quick response Paul! Could you please share sample file to demo this, or perhaps a link to a similar post? I’m fairly new to UiPath…

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You just search the registry manually (regedit) to find the relevant registry key.

As for getting the key’s value in your automation…

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Thank you! I’ll give that a try.

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By the way, if you’re sure the key will exist on the machine you don’t need to do the Invoke Code. Just use an Assign, and assign this to a string variable:

Microsoft.Win32.Registry.GetValue(*keypath*, "", "").ToString

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Hi Paul,
I tried the steps you suggested but I didn’t find j2plauncher.exe in the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths" folder. I only found javaw.exe. My application however uses the j2plauncher.exe to open. I can see it when I inspect the element:

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Update: I was able to resolve this by setting the exe path to the path for javaws.exe. This worked well for my automation.

Thank you!

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Glad that worked. By the way I didn’t say use the path in the example I showed, I said search the registry for jp2launcher.exe to see if you can find a key that stores the path, and then use that registry key in your code.

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