The environment variable USERNAME is defined in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment. Note however that as the keyname implies, the variables in this key are volatile, meaning that while the user can change them, they will not retain their new values and will be overwritten by the system with derived values (sort of like registry RAM). The username environment variable is ...
The username is only truncated if you are linked to a Microsoft Account. So, the easy solution to this problem is to unlink the Microsoft Account, when prompted for a username enter the full username you wish to use. Once you logout of the profile and log back into the profile, the user's profile directory, will reflect the name you entered in the prompt. At that point you can link the user to ...
I've seen that you can use %USERNAME% to get the whole path but I just want to get e.g John Doe for use in mapping a network drive to specific folders named after the user profile names? e.g NET ...
username - How do you get the User Profile name in a Batch File without ...
How can I share a specific folder with a specific username/password so that only those who know that username/password can access it? And more specifically, how can I make it so that two different shared folders on the same machine can be accessed via 2 different usernames & passwords, for instance 1 folder is public to everybody and the other ...
Cannot access a specific Windows shared folder with username & password ...