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copied!<p>You are getting that path because it's the one used by ClickOnce. ClickOnce applications are installed under the profile of the user who installed them.</p> <p><strong>Edit :</strong></p> <p><strong>Method 1:</strong></p> <p>Here's a way to get the path where your application was installed from (works only if your application was installed) (parts of this were written by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/8810355/162671">@codeConcussion</a>) :</p> <pre><code>// productName is name you assigned to your app in the // Project properties -> Publish -> Publish Settings public static string GetInstalledFromDir(string productName) { using (var key = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall")) { if (key != null) { var appKey = key.GetSubKeyNames().FirstOrDefault(x => GetValue(key, x, "DisplayName") == productName); return appKey == null ? null : GetValue(key, appKey, "UrlUpdateInfo"); } } return null; } private static string GetValue(RegistryKey key, string app, string value) { using (var subKey = key.OpenSubKey(app)) { if (subKey == null || !subKey.GetValueNames().Contains(value)) { return null; } return subKey.GetValue(value).ToString(); } } </code></pre> <p>Here's how to use it :</p> <pre><code>Uri uri = new Uri(GetInstalledFromDir("ProductName")); MessageBox.Show(Path.GetDirectoryName(HttpUtility.UrlDecode(uri.AbsolutePath))); </code></pre> <p><strong>Method 2 :</strong></p> <p>You can also try </p> <pre><code>System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.ActivationUri </code></pre> <p>But I think this one works only if your app was installed from the internet</p>

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