Windows user environment variable vs. system environment variable

In PowerShell, there's no cmdlet for it, but you can use the underlying .NET methods in the Environment class:

Write-Host "Machine environment variables"[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariables("Machine")Write-Host "User environment variables"[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariables("User")# This should be the same as 'Get-ChildItem env:', although it isn't sorted.Write-Host "Process environment variables"[Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariables("Process")

Use the following batch file:

@echo offfor /f "tokens=3 usebackq" %%a in (`reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment" ^| findstr TEMP`)  do @echo System variable TEMP = %%afor /f "tokens=3 usebackq" %%a in (`reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" ^| findstr TEMP`)  do @echo Current user variable TEMP = %%a

To use from a command line replace %% with %.

Output:

System variable TEMP = %SystemRoot%\TEMPCurrent user variable TEMP = %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

Note that the HKEY_CURRENT_USER takes precedance (but for some reason %USERPROFILE% is expanded to a shortname when evaluating %TEMP%):

echo %USERPROFILE%USERPROFILE=C:\Users\DavidPostillecho %TEMP%C:\Users\DAVIDP~1\AppData\Local\Temp