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Environment Variables and different user profiles
Couldn't quite find the right thread for this so stuck it in General and figured it would be moved if need be.
I'm wanting some more information on Environment Variables such as %userprofile%. Lets say software will install to %appdata% which relates to C:\Users\(CurrentUser)\appdata, that's fine, but what if this is a standard user profile and the installer gives a UAC prompt for Admin Privileges which are then provided, surely the software installer is now running in the admin user profile so %appdata% would relate to C:\Users\Admin\appdata?
Or is this not possible because you are still in the (Standard) user account therefore the "Environment" is still technically in the standard user rather than the admin.