Is it possible to change the location of Temp?

[shabador]

As the title says. Is it possible to change the location of the TMP and Temp variables before installation?

I want to be able to move them all to, say E:/tmp/ without having to go through the registry manually after the installation.

I've checked around in the Hivedef.ini and other hives. I only found one listing, changed that, but it didn't work. Temp was still located in C:/Windows/Temp and D:/Documents and Settings/xxxx/... (I've used winnt.sif to change userdir location)

I've thought about adding regtweaks that are installed post-install, but I'd rather try to get it done in the middle of installation.

[MCT]

u can add reg tweaks in the .inf files or during T-12

[shabador]

True. But I'm not certain about what regtweaks that will be needed to change all temp variables to another destination.

If someone has done this before, it would be great if they posted what they did to make it happen.

Isn't those variables supposed to be located in the i386 folder somewhere? Hive seemed to be the most likely place, but I couldn't find the correct place to edit.

[OcTroN]

You should find it here;

My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables

Here you can set it.

Good luck!

Thanks for translation MCT !

[shabador]

I know that, but I need to change them before I have the ability to go to My Computer Properties. I'm talking about doing this unattended, during the installation preferably.

Also: If you change the variables in the path you specify, not all of the temporary files are created in the new place. There are still numerous listings in the registry that points to the old location.

[MCT]

''Omgevingsvariablen"

is translated to "Environment Variables"

[gunsmokingman]

That set the tmp location to there

than it returns the normal tmp varibles

echo off
cls
mode con: Cols=55 Lines=5
color 1f
SETLOCAL
mkdir %systemdrive%\123
mkdir %systemdrive%\123
set tmp=%systemdrive%\123
set temp=%systemdrive%\abc

echo %tmp%
echo.
echo %temp%
set /p = Here Are The Temp Dir
ENDLOCAL

[Tsunami]

@gunsmokingman: your commands will only work for that batch file, it's not permament. This however is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
"TEMP"="temp directory here"
"TMP"="temp directory here"

This will only change the Windows\Temp directory though, not the user variable (which is set to %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp).

[shabador]

Thanks for the regkey, Tsunami. But as you said. That does not work for the user variable.

It is propably possible to export out all the user variables and append them on a new install... But that is not what I would like to achieve.

There must be a way to edit this in one of the files on the XPCD. These environment settings must (logically) be created by something.

But sadly it seems like the solution is buried deep withing the files of i386...

[fedek9001]

I am using this code to do the job :

start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\setenv -m TEMP C:\Temp\Admin\Temp

start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\setenv -m TMP C:\Temp\Admin\Temp

mkdir %systemdrive%\Temp\Admin\Temp

start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\setenv -u TEMP C:\Temp\Admin\Temp

start /wait %SystemRoot%\system32\setenv -u TMP C:\Temp\Admin\Temp

You can find this prog here :

http://barnyard.syr.edu/~vefatica/#SETENV

bye

[shabador]

Thank you very much. It's not what I wanted the most, but this is the second best solution. Thanks again.

[Tsunami]

Here we go. A quick search in the registry revealed where the user variables are stored:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment]
"TEMP"="temp directory here"

[shabador]

Continue searching. There are a couple of more places to edit. (I know about them, I've editet them manually before...)

Anyway. I think fedek9001's solution is the best one I've encountered if there is no possibility to edit one of the files in i386.

And fedek... You can combine some of the syntaxes on setenv. So you only need this.

md E:/Temp
setenv -umd temp E:/Temp
setenv -umd tmp E:/Temp

[Yzöwl]

I think the registry keys you are after are in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT,

They are created as type REG_EXPAND_SZ, for the environment variables they use. To set them at their default values or any other using environment variables you could do it with a batch type command:

HKU\.DEFAULT\Environment /v TEMP /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" /f
HKU\.DEFAULT\Environment /v TMP /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" /f

If you dont need environment variables in the location, you could use a normal reg file containing:

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Environment]
"TEMP"="E:\Temp"
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Environment]
"TMP"="E:\Temp"

If you wanted to just use the same location as Windows temp you could use the batch method above the reg or also an inf, by adding one of these:

CMD

HKU\.DEFAULT\Environment /v TEMP /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%SystemRoot%\Temp" /f
HKU\.DEFAULT\Environment /v TMP /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%SystemRoot%\Temp" /f

INF

HKU,.DEFAULT\Environment,TEMP,0x20000,"%10%\Temp"
HKU,.DEFAULT\Environment,TMP,0x20000,"%10%\Temp"

It would probably need installing at T13 /T12 from cmdlines.txt or equivalent