Environment Variables in Windows

How to use them in PowerShell

Environment Varaibles can be used in PowerShell ([[powershell]]) with the prefix $env:.

Example

• Variable: %APPDATA%
• In Powershell: $env:APPDATA

List of environment variables

Variable	Description
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%	C:\ProgramData
%APPDATA%	C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%	C:\Program Files\Common Files
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)%	C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
%CommonProgramW6432%	C:\Program Files\Common Files
%COMSPEC%	C:\Windows\System32