In Windows it's relative to what drive your current working directory is at the time. If your current directory is in the C drive then C:\ would be...

At the filesystem level the Win32 API has no root folder, but as others have pointed out the Shell API does, ie. the Desktop. The Shell namespace i...

In windows you do not have a special root node, instead you have some entry point on the filesystem in form of environment variables: %AppData%....

As others have mentioned Windows is unlike UNIX where the file systems have a single logical "path" space for all the devices (each device mounts i...

Windows doesn't share the UNIX concept of a root folder. Instead, each partition or device with file storage has its own root folder. Given that th...

In windows the root folder would be the desktop. Desktop->Computer->C:\folder1\folder2 with the IShellFolder Interface.

Unix uses the file system to represent almost all parts of the system, from top to bottom, which means the root file system folder logically also r...

yes, "\" is the root folder of the current drive. E.g. DOS command "cd \" changes current directory to the root folder, or "cd \folder1\folder2" go...