Timeline for Why does %appdata% point to the appdata folder of the administrator?
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| Nov 19, 2020 at 8:24 | history | edited | Joe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 13, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Ramhound |
%UserProfile% is defined within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList, what I am trying to determine is, what Windows thinks the username is for the profile you are asking about. You will have to identify the username by its SID (i.e. S-1-5-21-xxxx).
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| Jan 13, 2020 at 15:20 | history | edited | Joe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | Joe | @JW0914 A logical assumption indeed, which is why I added the comment after I made the change to your (otherwise better readable) edit. Thanks! | |
| Jan 10, 2020 at 13:32 | comment | added | JW0914 |
@Joe I thought that was a mistype, as %AppData% should always point to ..\AppData\Roaming and %LocalAppData% to ..\AppData\Local (in general, as you're obviously experiencing abnormal behavior), which is why I thought it was a mistype.
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 13:29 | comment | added | Joe | I see someone edited my post - thanks for the improvement, but I just want to explicitly point out that %appdata% in fact points to %userprofile%\AppData on this machine, and NOT %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming! | |
| S Jan 10, 2020 at 13:27 | history | edited | Joe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added correct markdown for monospaced code ; Grammatical corrections; replaced correction because %appdata% points to %userprofile%\appdata, not %userprofile%\appdata\roaming
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| S Jan 10, 2020 at 13:27 | history | suggested | JW0914 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added correct markdown for monospaced code ; Grammatical corrections
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | Joe | @Tetsujin I've checked the environment variables for that user (and other users, even on other machines) - none of them have an environment variable called %appdata%. | |
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 11:06 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Check the environment variables for that user [Click start, begin to type 'envi… & it should find it | |
| Jan 10, 2020 at 10:58 | history | asked | Joe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |