

For example, press Windows key+ R to open the run box, then type cmd and press Enter. If you use the Windows Command Prompt, you can use the cd command with %USERPROFILE% to change the current directory to your profile folder.

The title bar of the window and your location bar both display your full login name.

You can open it from the Start menu ( Windows System → File Explorer). You can type a location on your computer into the location bar, and File Explorer opens that folder.Īs shown in the following steps, if you type %USERPROFILE% in the location bar, File Explorer opens your profile folder. It works like an address bar in a web browser. In your File Explorer, the location bar shows the folder's name you're viewing. The %USERPROFILE% variable contains the path of your user profile folder. If you're unsure what your username is, you can always get to your profile folder using the environment variable %USERPROFILE%.Īn environment variable is a special word containing a value. If your username is hope, your user profile folder is located at C:\Users\hope\. In the Users folder, your profile folder name is the same as your username. Your user profile folder is located in the Users folder on your Windows system drive, which on most computers is C.
