[ jEdit-users ] Setting $HOME on Windows...

[Dirk M. <dmo...@gm...>]

Hi all,

maybe someone has solved this problem already:

How can I set the HOME directory for Java on Windows (98/ME/NT)? The one I
get from System.getProperty("user.home")?

Usually this is "C:\WINDOWS" on Windows 95/98/ME
and "C:\WINNT\profiles\<username>" on Windows NT.

I know already two ways of setting it:

1) set the environment variable HOME in autoexec.bat:
    set HOME=D:\myhome
This works on Sun's and IBM's JDK 1.1.8, but not on Sun's JDK 1.3.0 (where
this setting is ignored).

2) set the property on every invocation of java.exe:
    java -Duser.home="D:\myhome" ....
This is dumb, sometimes I forget to enter this option, and then I run into
errors.

Is there another way to set HOME per default? Maybe in the registry?

Thanks,
Dirk.