A complete list of %% relative paths variables in Windows Explorer in . . . Variables like %appdata%, %userprofile%, %windir% etc In my search, most of them point to KNOWNFOLDERID or the older CSIDL, but I don't know how to exactly apply them in Windows paths or File Explorer, and most of them doesn't work in the File Explorer in my tests
Does %USERPROFILE%\Desktop work in all language versions? 0 I have a cmd batch script which writes output to a file in %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\ Would that also work in non-English versions of Windows 10? I don't have a system in another language to check, but I know that Explorer shows it with a different name
Why cant I use %USERPROFILE% in %PATH%? - Super User USERPROFILE might still not be set, though, so you might need to hard-code the path into your user variable, but at least it won't affect other users on the computer
Windows 11: %USERPROFILE% not being expanded in environment variable It seems that one of you runs the developing software or the executable it generates with administrative privileges This means that the program is run as administrator, and that means that the %userprofile% variable is the default: c:\Windows\system32 In your example it gives c:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile which would be an indication that the program is not just started as
windows - What is %AppData%? - Super User %WORD% is how cmd exe, and Windows in general, does variables, so %AppData% is the variable name for the Application Data directory