Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy
takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm
down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a
silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says:
"OK, now what?"

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WinXP Environment variables

2008-12-15

The following is a list of environment variables that are available in Windows XP. It sometimes comes in useful.

win-envvars.txt

WinXP Environment Variables
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|   ALLUSERSPROFILE    | Lists the location of the All Users Profile.   |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|       APPDATA        | Lists the location where applications store    |
|                      | data by default.                               |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|          CD          | Lists the current directory string.            |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      CLIENTNAME      | List the client's NETBIOS name when connected  |
|                      | to terminal server session.                    |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      CMDCMDLINE      | Lists the command line used to start the       |
|                      | current cmd.exe.                               |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|    CMDEXTVERSION     | Lists the version number of the current Command|
|                      | Processor Extensions.                          |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|  CommonProgramFiles  | Lists the path to the Common Files folder.     |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     COMPUTERNAME     | Lists the name of the computer.                |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|       COMSPEC        | Lists the path to the command shell executable.|
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|         DATE         | Lists the current date.                        |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      ERRORLEVEL      | Lists the error code of the most recently used |
|                      | command.                                       |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      HOMEDRIVE       | Lists the drive letter is connected to the     |
|                      | user's home directory.                         |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|       HOMEPATH       | Lists the full path of the user's home         |
|                      | directory.                                     |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      HOMESHARE       | Lists the network path to the user's shared    |
|                      | home directory.                                |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      LOGONSEVER      | Lists the name of the domain controller that   |
|                      | validated the current logon session.           |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS | Lists the number of processors installed on the|
|                      | computer.                                      |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|          OS          | Lists the name of the operating                |
|                      | system. (Windows XP and Windows 2000 list the  |
|                      | operating system as Windows_NT.)               |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|         Path         | Lists the search path for executable files.    |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|       PATHEXT        | Lists the file extensions that the operating   |
|                      | system considers to be executable.             |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE| Lists the processor's chip architecture.       |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| PROCESSOR_IDENTFIER  | Lists the description of the processor.        |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|   PROCESSOR_LEVEL    | Lists the model number of the computer's       |
|                      | processor.                                     |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|  PROCESSOR_REVISION  | Lists the revision number of the processor.    |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     ProgramFiles     | Lists the path to the Program Files folder.    |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|        PROMPT        | Lists the command-prompt settings for the      |
|                      | current interpreter.                           |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|        RANDOM        | Lists a random decimal number between 0 and    |
|                      | 32767.                                         |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     SESSIONNAME      | Lists the connection and session names when    |
|                      | connected to terminal server session.          |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     SYSTEMDRIVE      | Lists the drive containing the Windows root    |
|                      | directory.                                     |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      SYSTEMROOT      | Lists the location of the Windows root         |
|                      | directory.                                     |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     TEMP and TMP     | List default temporary directories for         |
|                      | applications that are available to users who   |
|                      | are currently logged on.                       |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|         TIME         | Lists the current time.                        |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|      USERDOMAIN      | Lists the name of the domain that contains the |
|                      | user's account.                                |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|       USERNAME       | Lists the name of the user currently logged on.|
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|     USERPROFILE      | Lists the location of the profile for the      |
|                      | current user.                                  |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
|        WINDIR        | Lists the location of the OS directory.        |
+----------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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