environmental variable question

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Would someone please tell me what the difference is between:
homedrive
systemdrive

Is homedrive the PARTITION in which XP is installed (eg C:)?
What is the difference between the two?

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Vic
 
Vic said:
Would someone please tell me what the difference is between:
homedrive
systemdrive

Is homedrive the PARTITION in which XP is installed (eg C:)?
What is the difference between the two?
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HOMEDRIVE is more a setting for those in a domain.. As they can have their
HOMEDRIVE set when the account is created. Many people use "H:" as a users'
home drive and when you are in such a domona, your SYSTEMDRIVE will be the
drive on which your OS is installed upon (usually C:) and your HOMEDRIVE
will be whatever was set by the administrators of the domain you logged
into.

The definitions given are:

HOMEDRIVE
System returns which local workstation drive letter is connected to the
user's home directory. This variable is set based on the value of the home
directory. The user's home directory is specified in Local Users and Groups.

SYSTEMDRIVE
System returns the drive containing the Windows root directory (i.e., the
system root).
 
Great explaination, thanks Shenan!
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Shenan Stanley said:
HOMEDRIVE is more a setting for those in a domain.. As they can have their
HOMEDRIVE set when the account is created. Many people use "H:" as a users'
home drive and when you are in such a domona, your SYSTEMDRIVE will be the
drive on which your OS is installed upon (usually C:) and your HOMEDRIVE
will be whatever was set by the administrators of the domain you logged
into.

The definitions given are:

HOMEDRIVE
System returns which local workstation drive letter is connected to the
user's home directory. This variable is set based on the value of the home
directory. The user's home directory is specified in Local Users and Groups.

SYSTEMDRIVE
System returns the drive containing the Windows root directory (i.e., the
system root).
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