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You have your answer anyway... but to add a way to see all these, open a cmd.exe prompt and type the word SET and press return. &nbsp;You will see all the variables, e.g.<br />
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For instance a desktop entry for all users on a Windows 7 PC would be in %public%\desktop<br />
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Steve
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You have your answer anyway... but to add a way to see all these, open a cmd.exe prompt and type the word SET and press return.  You will see all the variables, e.g.

For instance a desktop entry for all users on a Windows 7 PC would be in %public%\desktop

Steve

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Actually, while %username% DOES grant the user name, if you are trying to access the user's profile, you should be using the %userprofile% environment variable, not %username% - in case the profile location has changed or runs on Windows XP (which you should be getting rid of).
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Actually, while %username% DOES grant the user name, if you are trying to access the user's profile, you should be using the %userprofile% environment variable, not %username% - in case the profile location has changed or runs on Windows XP (which you should be getting rid of).

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Lee, ebad-it said that already which is why I didn't elaborate.<br />
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Steve
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Lee, ebad-it said that already which is why I didn't elaborate.

Steve

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I need to run a file from the command line. The file is located in desktop folder:<br />
C:\Users\username\Desktop\<wbr />file.txt<br />
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How can I automatically get current user's name and place it in the line above (instead of 'username')?
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I need to run a file from the command line. The file is located in desktop folder:
C:\Users\username\Desktop\file.txt

How can I automatically get current user's name and place it in the line above (instead of 'username')?

getting current user's name

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