| Save time and keystrokes with environment variables
By Ed Bott If I tell you to open your user profile in File Explorer, you'll probably type its full path: C, colon, backslash, Users, backslash, followed by your user name. But there's a much faster way: Type %userprofile% and press Enter. Congratulations, you just saved a half-dozen keystrokes or so by using one of many useful environment variables in Windows. These are reserved names, enclosed between percent signs, that represent the current location of a specific system folder. Here are a few other useful ones to know: %localappdata% The hidden folder in your user profile where Windows apps store your data %windir% The folder containing Windows system files; usually C:Windows %public% A special user profile that contains folders for Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos, intended for sharing on a home network %temp% or %tmp% The normally hidden folder where Windows and apps can store files necessary for one-time tasks Some people write these variables using mixed case (%ProgramFiles%, for example) to make them easier to read. But they're not case sensitive, so skip the Shift key if you want. How to access Safe Mode in Windows 10 Sooner or later, you'll probably need to boot Windows into Safe Mode--but in Windows 10, you can't rely on the good old F8 approach. Here's what to do instead. | App Service is a cloud platform to build powerful web and mobile apps that connect to data anywhere, in the cloud or on-premises.
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