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mr i.o
mr i.o

Reputation: 952

%USERPROFILE% in registry

I am scripting a solution that requires passing %USERPROFILE% to the registry in local_machine. For example 

DotJetFolder=%USERPROFILE%\JetFolder

But it seems like registry doesn't understand this format. Looking for ideas on how to implement it. This for an RDS solution where we can't pre-determine the user profile.

Is there any way to pass this sort of variable to the registry.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4592

Answers (2)

A guest who's called Redd
A guest who's called Redd

Reputation: 469

From what I understand, you want to have a sub for "%USERPROFILE%"

$temp = "$env:USERPROFILE" + "\Jet"
Write-Host $temp

Hope it Helps!
BR

Upvotes: 0

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200273

You need to create the value as a REG_EXPAND_SZ value if you want environment variables in the string to be expanded when Windows reads the value. In PowerShell the creation of such a value would look somewhat like this:

$key   = 'HKLM:\some\where'
$name  = 'DotJetFolder'
$value = '%USERPROFILE%\JetFolder'

Set-ItemProperty -Path $key -Name $name -Value $value -Type ExpandString

Upvotes: 1

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