[ACCEPTED]-Java user.home is being set to %userprofile% and not being resolved-jvm
The majority of the registry keys located 14 at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
began 13 with %userprofile%. I updated all of the registry keys 12 that began with %userprofile% to begin with C:\Users\myusername. I verified 11 on Windows XP that the paths are in fact 10 hard coded and that %userprofile% is not used. The IT 9 guys mentioned that the registry keys defaulted 8 to use %userprofile% due to a default profile being used 7 within Windows 7. The JVM expects the Desktop 6 path to be hard coded. It will not evaluate 5 environment variables.
You can update the 4 registry keys one by one or you can export 3 the folder out and change the keys. Here 2 is how you can export and import the registry 1 keys:
- Go to Start > Run.
- Type
regedit. This opens the registry editor. - Browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders. - Right click on
Shell Foldersand choose Export. - Select the Desktop as the destination and enter
Shell Foldersfor the file name and save the file. - Open the file in a text editor and replace
%userprofile%withC:\\Users\\yourusername. Save and close the file. - Go back to the registry editor window and select File > Import from the main menu.
- Select
Shell Folders.regand click Open. - Close the registry editor and delete the
Shell Folders.regfile off of the desktop.
This is due to an long outstanding bug in 1 Java: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4787931
It looks to me as if - for whatever reasons 9 - %USERPROFILE% has not been set to a value. What do 8 you get if you type echo %USERPROFILE% on the command shell?
Maybe 7 it's not a OS feature but a configuration 6 issue. On my machine (Vista) %USERPROFILE% resolves to 5 my home directory and it's the same for 4 the Java property user.home
Edit
Here's an Vista/Windows7 3 issue with USERPROFILE and user.home: bug. May 2 not solve your problem might give you an 1 idea..
Until Java 8 where this is fixed, the solution 4 is to add this into the environment variables:
_JAVA_OPTIONS:-Duser.home=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
or 3 in command line:
set _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Duser.home=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
I 2 saw the solution in the comments of this 1 page: http://www.timehat.com/javas-user-home-is-wrong-on-windows/
Single string values in registry have 2 8 types "REG_SZ" and "REG_EXPAND_SZ" and they treat "%data%" strings differently.
Type "REG_SZ" leaves any "%data%" as is.
Type 7 "REG_EXPAND_SZ" replaces "%data%" the "data" environment variable value 6 if defined otherwise no resolution takes 5 place.
The Windows GUI environment variable 4 editing applets selects the correct type 3 depending if "%name%" appears in the value field.
This 2 issue sounds like an installer making poor 1 choices when writing into the registry.
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