What is the meaning of these Windows Environment variables: HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, HOMESHARE, USERPROFILE

Question

What is the meaning of these Windows Environment variables:

• HOMEDRIVE,
• HOMEPATH,
• HOMESHARE,
• and USERPROFILE?

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Answer 1

if you go to the run box and type any of the above like this

%HOMEPATH%

then it will go to your environment path that is set on your machine. It's usefull when writing vb scrips and things like that where you want to perform a task on the users profile area for example.

Hope this helps