Windows operating system have around 40 unique locations in the file system known as the "Special Folders".

Many people are confused about that location of the special folders, because the location of these folders is modified from one version of Windows to another.
For example: In Windows 98, the history folder was located under c:\Windows\History, In Windows 2000/XP Microsoft changed it to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Local Settings\History and now in Windows Vista, it's located under C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History.

That's why I created the SpecialFoldersView utility. This utility shows the list of all special folders in your current Windows operating system, and allows you to easily jump to the desired folder.
It also allows you to easily save the list of all your special folders into text/csv/html/xml file.

In the following example, you can see a report of all special folders created by SpecialFoldersView utility in a typical installation of Windows XP:

Folder Name	Folder Path	CSIDL	CSIDL Name
Application Data	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data	0x1a	CSIDL_APPDATA
CD Burning	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning	0x3b	CSIDL_CDBURN_AREA
Common Administrative Tools	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools	0x2f	CSIDL_COMMON_ADMINTOOLS
Common Application Data	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data	0x23	CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA
Common Desktop	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop	0x19	CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY
Common Documents	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents	0x2e	CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS
Common Favorites	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Favorites	0x1f	CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES
Common Music	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music	0x35	CSIDL_COMMON_MUSIC
Common Pictures	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Pictures	0x36	CSIDL_COMMON_PICTURES
Common Start Menu	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu	0x16	CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU
Common Start Menu Programs	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs	0x17	CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS
Common Startup	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup	0x18	CSIDL_COMMON_STARTUP
Common Templates	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Templates	0x2d	CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES
Common Video	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Videos	0x37	CSIDL_COMMON_VIDEO
Cookies	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Cookies	0x21	CSIDL_COOKIES
Desktop	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop	0x10	CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY
Favorites	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites	0x06	CSIDL_FAVORITES
Fonts	C:\WINDOWS\Fonts	0x14	CSIDL_FONTS
History	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\History	0x22	CSIDL_HISTORY
Local Application Data	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data	0x1c	CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA
My Documents	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents	0x05	CSIDL_PERSONAL
My Music	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Music	0x0d	CSIDL_MYMUSIC
My Pictures	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Pictures	0x27	CSIDL_MYPICTURES
NetHood	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\NetHood	0x13	CSIDL_NETHOOD
PrintHood	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\PrintHood	0x1b	CSIDL_PRINTHOOD
Profile Folder	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator	0x28	CSIDL_PROFILE
Program Files	C:\Program Files	0x26	CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES
Program Files - Common	C:\Program Files\Common Files	0x2b	CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES_COMMON
Recent	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Recent	0x08	CSIDL_RECENT
Send To	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\SendTo	0x09	CSIDL_SENDTO
Start Menu	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu	0x0b	CSIDL_STARTMENU
Start Menu Programs	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs	0x02	CSIDL_PROGRAMS
Startup	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Startup	0x07	CSIDL_STARTUP
System Directory	C:\WINDOWS\system32	0x25	CSIDL_SYSTEM
Templates	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Templates	0x15	CSIDL_TEMPLATES
Temporary Folder	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\
Temporary Internet Files	C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files	0x20	CSIDL_INTERNET_CACHE
Windows Directory	C:\WINDOWS	0x24	CSIDL_WINDOWS

For more information about this utility, click here.