(How) does XYplorer access Windows Volatile Environment?

[Marco]

Ok, for people who don't know: the volatile environment is a location in Windows registry, located in "HKCU\Volatile Environment", which holds per-user, session-long, system-wide variables.
How can this be helpful? Here's my case: at startup I use to run a batch file. This batch file can be run also other times during my session, however with a slightly different behaviour, since this batch file was already run at startup. Here's where volatile environment comes handy: when run upon logon (i.e. the first time) the batch file writes there a key/variable, which survives all session long and will tell afterwards the script that next execution(s) won't be the first.

XY part: Xyplorer doesn't seem to read new values added to that registry section.
If I type in the address bar

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!echo %username%

I correctly see my username, and the key username resides there in the registry.
However, if I try to add a new variable/key named foo with value bar

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!reg add "HKCU\Volatile Environment" /v foo /d "bar" /f

and then try to read it

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!echo %foo%

all I can see is just %foo%. I'd expect to see bar, instead.

Can you reproduce that? And why this behaviour?

PS: someone may argue that the change is not broadcasted to the whole system. However, I tried to apply this variable with this utility ( http://barnyard.syr.edu/~vefatica/#SETENV ), which takes care of this problem, and the result is the same.

PPS: I'm running Windows 7.

[admin]

What if you restart XY? Does this help?

[Marco]

What if you restart XY? Does this help?

No, forgot to mention that I tried that.
And of course logging off and on again would flush out that key.
Can you reproduce that?

[admin]

What if you restart XY? Does this help?

No, forgot to mention that I tried that.
And of course logging off and on again would flush out that key.
Can you reproduce that?

Hm, if a restart does not help, I don't see what I can do. XY reads all Environment Variables on startup and caches them.

[Marco]

Ok...
I'll try to do a test on a windows xp machine to see if maybe is something related to windows 7 security features (kind of virtualization/sandboxing).

[Marco]

Problem solved!
I was running XY from RocketDock, which apparently doesn't update its volatile environment variables.
Reference: http://jpsoft.com/forums/threads/volati ... ment.3660/

[admin]

OK, thanks for solving it.