{"id":79110,"date":"2025-07-25T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=79110"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:37:54","slug":"default-system-and-user-environment-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/default-system-and-user-environment-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"List of SYSTEM and USER Environment Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows has a default set of environment variables and their values. There are two types of environment variables: user environment variables (set for each user) and system environment variables (set for everyone). For example, the variable %USERNAME%<\/strong> represents the name of the currently logged-on user account.<\/p>\n

If you have inadvertently removed one or more standard environment variables in Windows 10 or 11, the following table can help you manually re-add them.<\/p>\n

Environment variables (System)<\/h3>\n

There are the default System<\/strong> variables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Variable<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
ComSpec<\/td>\nC:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DriverData<\/td>\nC:\\Windows\\System32\\Drivers\\DriverData<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OS<\/td>\nWindows_NT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PATH<\/td>\nC:\\WINDOWS\\system32;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\OpenSSH\\<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PATHEXT<\/td>\n.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROCESSOR_LEVEL<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PROCESSOR_REVISION<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PSModulePath<\/td>\n%ProgramFiles%\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules;C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\Modules<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TEMP<\/td>\nC:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TMP<\/td>\nC:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
USERNAME<\/td>\nSYSTEM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
windir<\/td>\nC:\\WINDOWS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Environment variables (User)<\/h3>\n

The following are the User variables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Variable<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
OneDrive<\/td>\nC:\\Users\\username<\/em>\\OneDrive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OneDriveConsumer<\/td>\nC:\\Users\\username<\/em>\\OneDrive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PATH<\/td>\nC:\\Users\\username<\/em>\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TEMP<\/td>\nC:\\Users\\username<\/em>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TMP<\/td>\nC:\\Users\\username<\/em>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

To open the Environment Variables dialog, launch sysdm.cpl<\/strong>, click “Advanced”, and click “Environment variables”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows has a default set of environment variables and their values. There are two types of environment variables: user environment variables (set for each user) and system environment variables (set for everyone). For example, the variable %USERNAME% represents the name of the currently logged-on user account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-11"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59342,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/commands-not-recognized-internal-external-command\/","url_meta":{"origin":79110,"position":0},"title":"Commands not recognized as an internal or external command in Command Prompt","author":"Ramesh","date":"July 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"When you run a command-line in a Command Prompt window, the following error may appear: 'help' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 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