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Monday, November 28, 2005

Windows Environment Variables

As a matter of convenience when navigating Windows Explorer, you can use the system's environment variables to quickly locate certain folder locations. This can be especially useful when the Windows installation is not using default values (say the system drive is D: or you've moved the home folder). From the address bar, just type the following to get to the specified folder:
  • %systemroot% (Windows directory, eg: c:\windows)
  • %windir% (Windows directory, eg: c:\windows)
  • %systemdirectory% (The Windows system directory, eg: c:\windows\system32)
  • %homepath% (Current user's home directory, eg: c:\documents and settings\user)

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