Get SYSTEM temp folder?

Question

I'm looking for something similar to this question. However, I am looking specifically to dynamically find the location of the system's temp folder (i.e. the temp folder used by services.)

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set colEnvironment = objShell.Environment("PROCESS")
objPath = colEnvironment("temp")
WScript.Echo objPath

In that case

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set colEnvironment = objShell.Environment("PROCESS")
objPath = colEnvironment("windir")
WScript.Echo objPath & "\temp"

hope this will help

Answer 2

In C#, its...

System.Collections.IDictionary Vars = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables();

String TempPath = Vars["TEMP"];

You get an entire array of elements... Path, Temp, SessionName, PathExt, UserDomain, SystemDrive, WinDir, etc...

Answer 3

This may be of interest: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb774096%28VS.85%29.aspx

Answer 4

Here you go (in VBS)

Set environmentVars = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Environment("Process")
tempFolder = environmentVars("TEMP")
msgbox(tempFolder)

I'm not sure if your system will have an environment variable called "TEMP", so go to the command line and type

set

You'll get a list of environment vars, and their values. Pick the one that has your temp folder in it.

Answer 5

After researching a little into this, I believe there is no way to use environment variables to capture the location of another user's %TEMP% folder (in this case the System user).

Answer 6

System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();