Question

In a windows 7 environment, I have a variable VARA=”x” defined under System’s enironmental variables and the same variable VARA=”y” defined under the user’s environmental variables. how do i get the value of VARA as defined in the system’s environmental variables section. I always get the user value not the system one.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You’ll have to access the registry using JNA.

Advapi32Util.registryGetStringValue(WinReg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
    "SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Environment",
    name);

You can also access user variables:

Advapi32Util.registryGetStringValue(WinReg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,
    "Environment",
    name);