How to get absolute path of zoom.exe?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 10, 2024
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Is the absolute path of Zoom.exe always installed in the following folder?

C:\Users\xxx\AppData \Roaming\Zoom\bin

If not, how to get absolute path of zoom.exe?

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RescueBlues

New Member

That's what Zoom claims, but it's *not* consisent across updates.

I'd like to suggest that Zoom *stop* randomly switching back & forth between creating & deleting then using different app directories (e.g. \bin vs. \bin_00) every other Zoom update/release. I use a shortcut to launch Zoom, and your dumb needless directory path change on every other Update breaks that, forcing me to manually recreate/relink the shortcut.

The Zoom installer created the default-install path as:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Zoom\*keeps-changing-its-mind*\
i.e.
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Zoom\bin_00\Zoom.exe
vs.
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Zoom\bin\Zoom.exe

It would be better to default-install (which the user can *manually* use) at the "install for all users" \Program Files or \\Program Files (x86) location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Zoom\bin\Zoom.exe
and *also* consistently using \bin, not toggle between \bin and \bin_00 for every other update, assuming the same *bug* exists if installed here.

storyhub

Community Super Champion | Customer

%AppData%\Zoom\bin\

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RescueBlues

New Member

Great idea -- if the Zoom app was in the \bin directory. It’s not, at least this month -- it’s currently in the \bin_00 directory.

So %AppData%\Zoom\bin\ doesn’t work (“Windows can’t find …, check spelling and try again”), but %AppData%\Zoom\bin_00 does. For “this month” since Zoom randomly changes (deletes one, creates the other) the \bin vs. \bin_00 tree every few updates, as I reported in my original post. In which case *neither* the \bin nor \bin_00 path works reliably across updates.

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