Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:03 PM 3/4/2010, Christopher Fisk wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:10 PM 3/4/2010, Eli Allen wrote: The username comes from what is entered when you login not the actual username Yeah, but I'm clicking on the user to go into Windows, so I'm not typing anything. T

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
Message From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thu, March 4, 2010 12:42:50 PM Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some

[H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the username is Fred, %username% is Fred in XP and Fred-PC$ in 7. Of course, that breaks the batch file. Am I doing something wrong or did MS

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the username is Fred, %username% is Fred in XP and Fred-PC$ in 7. Of course, that breaks the

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Stan Zaske
So am I confused, that you're still using batch files. Written anything in BASIC lately? No offense, just couldn't resist. LOL On 3/4/2010 2:42 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:57 PM 3/4/2010, Stan Zaske wrote: So am I confused, that you're still using batch files. Written anything in BASIC lately? No offense, just couldn't resist. LOL On 3/4/2010 2:42 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:57 PM 3/4/2010, Stan Zaske wrote: So am I confused, that you're still using batch files. Written anything in BASIC lately? No offense, just couldn't resist. LOL Batch is God's language. There are two many useful command line programs to dump it. T On 3/4/2010 2:42 PM, Thane

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the username is Fred, %username% is Fred in XP and

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread Eli Allen
The username comes from what is entered when you login not the actual username Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread JRS
, March 4, 2010 12:42:50 PM Subject: Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables At 04:29 PM 3/4/2010, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the username

Re: [H] Windows 7 environment variables

2010-03-04 Thread maccrawj
echo %username% results in the typical XP/2K/etc... expected output here under 7. On 3/4/2010 12:29 PM, Thane Sherrington wrote: I have a little batch file that uses %username% to do some stuff. That works fine in Windows XP and Vista, but in 7, it becomes username-PC$ - so if the username is