Getting the SYSTEM environment variable

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From a thread over an internal alias
today.. "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Some have noticed that in V1 we give
you access the user’s environment variables… We are fixing it in Whidbey where
you can get the user or machine

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP",EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine)

Notice you can do this in V1
with:

               
using (RegistryKey environmentKey =

                      
Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment", false)) {

                  
string value = environmentKey.GetValue(variable) as
string;

                  
return value;

               
}

Useful?