get default Windows text editor .exe path using c++

Question

Just wanted to know how to get default Windows text editor .exe path c++. I badly need this to improve one of my c++ assignment. I've no idea how to do it.

Answer 1

The usual way would be with FindExecutable.

Answer 2

If you require it to open files, then you can use ShellExecute with the edit (or open) verb to get everything done all-in-one, else you can use SHAssocEnumHandlers to get the handlers for the text based files you are interested in.

In the most simple case, you can also use %windir%\\notepad.exe which will link to notepad on any desktop version of windows.