System environment variable windows server 2003

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New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. The command processor provides the set command to display its environment block or to create new environment variables.

You can also view or modify the environment variables by selecting System from the Control Panel , selecting Advanced system settings , and clicking Environment Variables. The GetEnvironmentStrings function returns a pointer to the environment block of the calling process. This should be treated as a read-only block; do not modify it directly.

Instead, use the SetEnvironmentVariable function to change an environment variable. When you are finished with the environment block obtained from GetEnvironmentStrings , call the FreeEnvironmentStrings function to free the block. Calling SetEnvironmentVariable has no effect on the system environment variables. This allows applications, such as the shell, to pick up your updates.

The maximum size of a user-defined environment variable is 32, characters. There is no technical limitation on the size of the environment block. However, there are practical limits depending on the mechanism used to access the block. Post by Jeremy Unless its a terminal server Then there is a lot of space in user profiles.

Post by Pegasus MVP I love these posts where we get the opportunity to play guessing games and where the essential facts are only gradually revealed. Moving the user profiles to a different drive is a highly intrusive change that is likely to have serious repercussions. Post by Jeremy I've got this environment, this is the problem, this is what I have tried and I learned this extra fact but am stuck.

Help me. I've moved the profiles using the method I described in my post, its pretty safe. Cheers, Jeremy. Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]. Post by ZBon42 Lesson learned. I apologise, you guys are right, I should have described my environment better