UserProfileDir pointing to wrong location

[mike1950r]

Hello,

i had this issue several times, that after installing a program the userprofiledir was pointing to:

C:\windows\system32\ ... systemprofile

But the right location is C:\users\ & $username

How can I restore the right location to the userprofledir variable.

Thanks lot for assistance.

cheers mike

[Jos]

Guess it's related to running something with elevated rights? Care to share a script that has this issue? 

[mike1950r]

This is not a script issue.

Just the userprofiledir is not pointing to the right location.

How can i repair the failure?

I have to set this to the right location.

Cheers mike

[WildByDesign]

13 minutes ago, mike1950r said:

C:\windows\system32\ ... systemprofile

Are you running as the built-in Admin account or something?

I don't think we can really figure anything out without a reproducible script because everything is correct on mine with that macro.

[mike1950r]

i run just normal windows.

normally everything is fine.

but just after installing ilok program the C:\users\ profilename is replaced by C:\windows\system32\ ... systemprofile.

so my question is, how to reset this to normal path C:\users\ & $username.

cheers mike

[Nine]

Unless l am mistaken, this has nothing to do with AutoIt.  It is just the installer not behaving as you wanted to. Right?

[WildByDesign]

Can you test PowerShell see what it reports as your user directory?

Open PowerShell and run the following:

$HOME

 

[mike1950r]

it reports nothing.

 

Just to remind, the problem occurs reproducable after installing ilok license manager.

the userprofiledir normally

C:\users\ & $username

changes to

C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile

It's just a nightmare.

cheers mike

[WildByDesign]

7 minutes ago, mike1950r said:

it reports nothing.

What about from CMD:

echo %USERPROFILE%

By the way, is your actual script running as Admin or not?

[mike1950r]

it reports:

C:\windows\system32\config\systemprofile

cheers mike

[WildByDesign]

So that confirms that it is not AutoIt-related and it seems that software does some things with your OS that seem a little shady.

You may have to piece together something. But that depends on what the other stuff reports.

Check and see what these report:

@AppDataDir
@HomeDrive
@HomePath
@AppDataDir
@UserName

You would have to put those into a ConsoleWrite to see what shows.

I've done some things in the past where I pieced together certain things like:

ConsoleWrite(@HomeDrive & "\Users\" & @UserName & @CRLF)

But that all depends on if your system is giving those macros the right information that matches.

On a side note, I would be very cautious with a software (iLok) that makes changes like this to the OS.

[mike1950r]

You're right, bad software.

It installs two services:

Bonjour service

PACE License service

If I deactivate PACE License service the problem is gone all variables are then good.

But then I cannot run the programs which need this license.

thanks lot for your help.

cheers mike

[mike1950r]

How do I update the persistent environment variable back to  @HomeDrive & "\Users\" & @UserName  with AutoIt3?

This is my question.

The username is allright. It's HomeDrive and HomePath beeing empty.

But it must be possible to setup these system variables.

I thought it must be possible with Autoit.

Cheers mike

Edited January 9 by mike1950r

[Jos]

EnvSet() and EnvUpdate() functions?

[mike1950r]

Thanks jos,

it seems, that userprofiledir is no system variable.
It needs homedrive and homepath to get the right value.
Say userprofiledir = homedrive & homepath

So the solution for me would be:

EnvSet("HOMEDRIVE", "C:")
EnvSet("HOMEPATH", "\Users\" & @username)
Shutdown($SD_REBOOT)

Thanks lot Jos.
I knew Autoit has a solution.

Cheers mike
🙂

Edited January 9 by mike1950r