Is there a windows equivalent to using ~/ as a shorthand symbolizing your home/user directory?

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For example, is there a character I can enter in place of the asterisk in the string "*\Videos" that is equivalent to typing the string "C:\Users\myusername\Videos"?

I'm particularly interested in using this method to jump to my user directory from the Windows key dialog.

Please pardon any butchering of technical terminology.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '12 at 18:33

Unfortunately, in regular windows prompt there is no shorthand notation. You can use %userprofile% or %homepath%, for example cd %userprofile% and cd %HOMEPATH%\Videos as per your example

In Powershell, however, you can use the tilde ~. If you use console a lot I would recommend creating a shortcut to the Powershell rather than regular command prompt

Is there a windows equivalent to using ~/ as a shorthand symbolizing your home/user directory?

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