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Java user.home is being set to %userprofile% and not being resolved

Answer 1

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It looks to me as if - for whatever reasons - %USERPROFILE% has not been set to a value. What do you get if you type echo %USERPROFILE% on the command shell?

Maybe it's not a OS feature but a configuration issue. On my machine (Vista) %USERPROFILE% resolves to my home directory and it's the same for the Java property user.home

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Here's an Vista/Windows7 issue with USERPROFILE and user.home: bug. May not solve your problem might give you an idea..

Andreas_D 2010-01-25 19:00:48

echo %USERPROFILE% prints out C:\Users\politesp

hoffmandirt 2010-01-25 19:08:03

maybe it is case sensitive? have you tried USERPROFILE instead of userprofile?

kpolice 2010-01-25 19:26:13

at least on VISTA, environment variable names are not case sensitive. And I really doubt that MS has changed that with Windows 7...

Andreas_D 2010-01-25 19:41:00

@Andreas_D. Thanks, the value of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Desktop is %userprofile%\Desktop. When I change the value of this key to c:\Users\politesp, my user.home resolves correctly. Any idea why some individuals with Windows 7 do not have this problem?

hoffmandirt 2010-01-25 19:42:37

Maybe this happened during the upgrade from XP to Win7 - %userprofile% may have not been set at a time where it was used to create some registry keys. Could be that your registry has even more keys with the fragment %userprofile% instead of the real path.

Andreas_D 2010-01-25 20:11:16

My particular machine was a fresh install. I spoke to the IT guys and they are thinking that it has to do with roaming profiles. I don't know much about roaming profiles.

hoffmandirt 2010-01-25 20:32:47

The IT guys say that the registry was like that because it was using a default profile.

hoffmandirt 2010-01-28 15:34:46

Answer 2

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The majority of the registry keys located at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

began with %userprofile%. I updated all of the registry keys that began with %userprofile% to begin with C:\Users\myusername. I verified on Windows XP that the paths are in fact hard coded and that %userprofile% is not used. The IT guys mentioned that the registry keys defaulted to use %userprofile% due to a default profile being used within Windows 7. The JVM expects the Desktop path to be hard coded. It will not evaluate environment variables.

You can update the registry keys one by one or you can export the folder out and change the keys. Here is how you can export and import the registry keys:

1.  Go to Start > Run.
2.  Type regedit. This opens the registry editor.
3.  Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders.
4.  Right click on Shell Folders and choose Export.
5.  Select the Desktop as the destination and enter Shell Folders for the file name and save the file.
6.  Open the file in a text editor and replace %userprofile% with C:\\Users\\yourusername. Save and close the file.
7.  Go back to the registry editor window and select File > Import from the main menu.
8.  Select Shell Folders.reg and click Open.
9.  Close the registry editor and delete the Shell Folders.reg file off of the desktop.

hoffmandirt 2010-01-28 16:10:24

Answer 3

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This is due to an long outstanding bug in Java: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4787931

Brett 2010-09-21 13:34:23

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