Location of the plug-ins directory on Windows?

[Heimdaal]

Here's my problem:

I'm making an installer for Photoshop and Adobe stuff and I need to know the location of the Adobe Illustrator plug-ins folder on Windows.
For Photoshop, I just let this installer look into the registry to find the path (which can be found under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Adobe > Photoshop > 110.0 > PluginPath). For me that value is c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2017\Plug-ins\ - which is the default install location.

But there is no such registry keys for Adobe Illustrator, which is odd because I can see the path on the harddrive - for me it's located in the default install location c:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2015\Plug-ins\

I've searched for that path in the registry and it is no where to be found!

How am I supposed to find the Illustrator plug-ins path from the Windows registry??

[Ray Yorkshire]

Past my pay grade but  had a quick look

on win 7 there seems to be Illustrator keys under

Registry editor

Computer

Hkey local machine

Software

Classes

then way down the list Adobe illustrator etc

Using the Edit > Find > Subscribe

I see that free plug in is under classes too

[Heimdaal]

I took a look there but I can't find any values that hold the Plug-ins path
The class Adobe.Illustrator.Plugin for instance only holds info about some icon.

[Monika Gause]

You might want to discuss the issue in there: Illustrator SDK

The requirements for making an installer might be somewhat more complicated.

[Heimdaal]

That won't be necessary.
"Installer" might be the wrong word here. What I need to do is to setup symlinks between a known location and the Adobe Illustrator plug-ins folder (which is an unknown location - the user can install the application anywhere they like)

[Monika Gause]

Your choice.

You can ask people who have been creating installers for years or you can try and continue asking in the General forum.