Guest BM Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Hello! here is a description of my problem... I've never seen this and didnt find ony solution for this! I have one user in my office that uses a laptop and sometimes when using EXCEL she gets the message that Autorecover can not save because the path \\server\AllUsers\%username%\OfficeRecovery isnt available. So, this Autorecover path is assigned by Group Policy by the domain and works fine for all other users. After a little research I noticed that the user's Environment Variable USERNAME is simply missing! When I run the SET command it doesn't appear. And the command Echo %username% just returns %username% again! The weird thing is that if I restart the computer the problem is solved! But sometimes I can't restart the system because the user is very busy. So, if someone could help, I apreciate. Thanks -- BM
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Re: Environment Variables Disappear! "BM" <BM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C345F797-8B54-484A-A22C-13AB3B098ECB@microsoft.com... > Hello! here is a description of my problem... I've never seen this and > didnt > find ony solution for this! > I have one user in my office that uses a laptop and sometimes when using > EXCEL she gets the message that Autorecover can not save because the path > \\server\AllUsers\%username%\OfficeRecovery isnt available. > So, this Autorecover path is assigned by Group Policy by the domain and > works fine for all other users. > After a little research I noticed that the user's Environment Variable > USERNAME is simply missing! When I run the SET command it doesn't appear. > And > the command Echo %username% just returns %username% again! > The weird thing is that if I restart the computer the problem is solved! > But > sometimes I can't restart the system because the user is very busy. > So, if someone could help, I apreciate. > Thanks > > -- > BM I suggest you start by creating a log file so that you can find out when exactly this variable disappears. Use the Task Scheduler to run the following batch file once every five minutes: echo %date% %time% %UserName% >> c:\Log.txt The result should be interesting.
Guest BM Posted September 27, 2007 Posted September 27, 2007 Re: Environment Variables Disappear! OK... I'll do it...but it will only tell me when it happened... The user probably will not know what he was doing at that time (as usual!!! :-) ) What I would like is why it vanishes?!?! it's something that shouldn't disappear! right? :-) And, is it possible to bring it back without restarting the system? I've tried the SET command but it doesn't work. Thanks in advance -- BM "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote: > > "BM" <BM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:C345F797-8B54-484A-A22C-13AB3B098ECB@microsoft.com... > > Hello! here is a description of my problem... I've never seen this and > > didnt > > find ony solution for this! > > I have one user in my office that uses a laptop and sometimes when using > > EXCEL she gets the message that Autorecover can not save because the path > > \\server\AllUsers\%username%\OfficeRecovery isnt available. > > So, this Autorecover path is assigned by Group Policy by the domain and > > works fine for all other users. > > After a little research I noticed that the user's Environment Variable > > USERNAME is simply missing! When I run the SET command it doesn't appear. > > And > > the command Echo %username% just returns %username% again! > > The weird thing is that if I restart the computer the problem is solved! > > But > > sometimes I can't restart the system because the user is very busy. > > So, if someone could help, I apreciate. > > Thanks > > > > -- > > BM > > I suggest you start by creating a log file so that you can > find out when exactly this variable disappears. Use the > Task Scheduler to run the following batch file once > every five minutes: > echo %date% %time% %UserName% >> c:\Log.txt > > The result should be interesting. > > >
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