PowerShell - environment vars - differentiating between user and system vars

Question

How can I display environment variables in PowerShell, and be able to distinguish between which ones are "user" vars and which ones are "system" vars?

Answer 1

Not a powershell pro, but at worst, you could go fish around in the registry to see whether the vars you're interested in are showing up there. Inside a given session, I'm not really sure there's any distinction between user/sys vars other than the registry storage location...

Pertinent keys are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

Answer 2

To find out within PowerShell:

Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment'

Get-ItemProperty -Path 'Registry::HKCU\Environment'