Because I can never seem to remember this stuff.

Basics

Magical Environment Variable:

$Env

Doesn’t do much on its own though.

List all available properties:

Get-ChildItem $Env:

Note to self: Remember to put that blasted colon at the end, and it will save you hours of figuring out why it lists your current folders instead.

Notable Properties

Get the local computer name:

$Env:COMPUTERNAME

Get the processor attributes:

$Env:NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
$Env:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
$Env:PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
$Env:PROCESSOR_LEVEL
$Env:PROCESSOR_REVISION

Get the Operating System type:

$Env:OS

Get the executable search path (just like PATH in DOS):

$Env:PATH

Get the TEMP path:

$Env:TEMP

Get user related information:

$Env:USERDNSDOMAIN
$Env:USERDOMAIN
$Env:USERNAME
$Env:USERPROFILE

Get the program files folders:

${Env:ProgramFiles}
${Env:ProgramFiles(x86)}