{"id":4548,"date":"2023-01-11T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:10:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:10:52","slug":"how-to-find-out-all-environment-variables-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"How To Find Out All Environment Variables on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Environment Variables, according to a better definition on Wikipedia, are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable place to store temporary files, or the AppData variable to find a quick way to get access to the Roaming folder in the user\u2019s profile folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Windows, there are a few ways to discover how many of them are available and what their values are. It\u2019s always good to discover what you can use right out of the box, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Control Panel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Search \u201cAdvanced\u201d in Control Panel, and click View advanced system settings<\/strong> to Open System Properties<\/strong> dialog box. Advanced tab is automatically selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"System<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And click Environment Variables<\/strong> button to show what are available?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Environment<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, this lists most of the available variables but not all. Besides, it\u2019s quite tedious going through multiple steps to get that information. Here is a better way<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Command Prompt window<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simply open up a Command Prompt window, and fire up a command SET<\/strong>, you will have a complete list of Environment Variables and their values right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Command<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nice, quick, and yet, there is even a better way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through PowerShell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To read an Environment Variable in PowerShell, simply use the prefix \u201c$env:<\/strong>\u201c, follow by the name of the variable. What\u2019s better is that this prefix env<\/strong> is actually a drive so you can use a simple cmdlet such as dir<\/strong> to find and list all Environment Variables at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS> dir env:<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Windows<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pretty cool and nicely organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ref: Windows Quick Tip: How To Find Out All My Environment Variables – NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environment Variables, according to a better definition on Wikipedia, are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable place to store temporary files, or the AppData variable Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14,15],"tags":[1456,1455],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-7-8-10","category-windows-servers","tag-find-out-all-environment-variables","tag-find-out-all-environment-variables-on-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}