%windir% versus %systemroot%

[Mangan 0]

Does anyone know the difference between %windir% and %systemroot%?

For those not knowing what it’s all about please don’t post any replies.

[Radu175 0]

%windir% is the Windows directory (I.E: C:\windows) and %systemroot% is the HD root dir (c:\)

[Mangan 0]

Sorry Radu175 it seems you’ve never tried these two because the answer is wrong.

Both syntaxes do the same action, you may want to try it your self.

[YuppieScum 0]

From the "windows script host reference" on MSDN...

 

• [*]SYSTEMROOT System directory (for example, c:\winnt). This is the same as WINDIR.

[*]WINDIR System directory (for example, c:\winnt). This is the same as SYSTEMROOT. [/list:u]

 

However, WINDIR is available as a system and process variable under W2K and as a process variable under Win9x, but SYSTEMROOT is a W2K process variable only.

 

 

 

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