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raygallo
Level 3
‎Apr 06, 2010 08:10 AM

Environment Variable Help

I am trying to write the environment variable %PUBLIC% to an .ini file. in Windows 7

When I go to a DOS prompt and type SET,. I see PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public

Whn I type %PUBLIC% in a dos prompt I get C:\Users\Public

When I use [PUBLIC]Public Documents in the data value for the .ini file, it seems to completely ignore it at install time and I get just Public Documents written to the .ini file.

When I do [ALLUSERSPROFILE] i am able to get C:\ProgramData written to the .ini file which is what I get when I do a %ALLUSERSPROFILE% from a DOS prompt.

I seem to be a bit confused on how to get the variable PUBLIC to do the same thing.

Any insight is most appreciated.
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raygallo
Level 3
‎Apr 06, 2010 09:27 AM

Nothing better than when you solve your own problem.

The solution is set the variable to [%PUBLIC] in the data value. 🙂

So simple, yet so elusive.
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