Fabio Marzocca
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How to change TEMP environment for ALL users
I need a way to set my Windows 7 so that each time I add a new user to the PC it inherits the TEMP and TMP environment settings to C:\Temp instead of default windows 7 location (%USERPROFILE%\AppData|Loc al|Temp).
I have seen this cannot be done by changing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the Admin account, as it doesn't keep persistent thru all users.
I need this way works also for all existent users, modifying their TEMP environment centrally from Admin account.
I have seen this cannot be done by changing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the Admin account, as it doesn't keep persistent thru all users.
I need this way works also for all existent users, modifying their TEMP environment centrally from Admin account.
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Thanks jake.. any way to change also on existing users?
Under HKEY_USERS will be all the users starting with S-1-5- etc. Under each tree will be the Environment variables sub tree. You can change it in there.
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I have just tested as you said, modifying HKEY_USERS\Default\Environ ment with the new directory. Created a new user, but the environment is still the default one: %USERPROFILE%\AppData|Loca l|Temp
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Any new users that login will get the new value - this does not affect existing users thoug.