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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:23:03+00:00

In a Windows XP system, is there a way to determine the current value

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In a Windows XP system, is there a way to determine the current value of Java’s user.home system property without having to write sample program like this?

i.e. from the command line or control panel or registry, etc.?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you need to find the exact value that will be returned for user.home in a java program when it is run under the same user account you should actually run a java program to obtain the value. There is no guaranteed stable mapping to anything else on Windows for this propery and the mapping that is currently used is wrong and it’s not unlikely that it will be changed eventually.

    This bug entry describes how user.home actually gets it’s value currently and discusses several alternatives that might be more appropriate: https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?bug_id=4787931

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