Celeb Glow
general | March 01, 2026

Is there an environment variable for C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Temp in Windows 7?

Is there an environment variable that by default points to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Temp in Windows 7?

Or maybe C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\local\Temp for that matter?

Also what are these referred to as?

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Is there an environment variable that by points to

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Temp

No

Or maybe

C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\local\Temp

The default value for %TEMP% and %TMP% is C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp


Windows 7 Environment variables

Variable Windows Vista/7
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%
(%PROGRAMDATA%) C:\ProgramData
%APPDATA% C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming
%COMPUTERNAME% {computername}
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES% C:\Program Files\Common Files
%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)% C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
%COMSPEC% C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
%HOMEDRIVE% C:
%HOMEPATH% \Users\{username}
%LOCALAPPDATA% C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local
%LOGONSERVER% \\{domain_logon_server}
%PATH% C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;{plus program paths}
%PATHEXT% .com;.exe;.bat;.cmd;.vbs;.vbe;.js;.jse;.wsf;.wsh;.msc
%PROGRAMFILES% C:\Program Files
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)% C:\Program Files (x86) (only in 64-bit version)
%PROMPT% Code for current command prompt format. Code is usually $P$G
%SystemDrive% C:
%SystemRoot% C:\Windows
%TEMP% and %TMP% C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Temp
%USERDOMAIN% {userdomain}
%USERNAME% {username}
%USERPROFILE% C:\Users\{username}
%WINDIR% C:\Windows
%PUBLIC% C:\Users\Public
%PROGRAMDATA% C:\ProgramData
%PSModulePath% %SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\

Source Windows 7 Environment variables

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