Environment Data Sources

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Environment Data Sources

Where the data on the Environment page of the Computer window comes from. See Computer Window Data Sources for how to read the Source column, and for the other pages of the Computer window.

Collected by the Environment Variables scanner from WMI Win32_Environment.

Field

Source

Derivation / Notes

Name

WMI

Win32_Environment.Name.

User Name

WMI

Win32_Environment.UserName - the profile the variable belongs to. Machine-wide variables report <SYSTEM>.

Value

WMI

Win32_Environment.VariableValue, as stored - references such as %SystemRoot% are not expanded.

See also

Computer Window Data Sources

Computer Window

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