Putting %appdata% into the run window will open up the Appdata folder, but what is the command to open the User's Documents folder, even when someone else logs in? I thought it was something like %userdir%, but I can not find out what it is. Not sure what to search for in Google either so I am at a loss.
There is no environment variable for this. You'll need to set one. Here's a list of all Windows default environment variables:
*This is for XP, but should be the same for newer versions of Windows
For a single terminal session, you can just use
set USERDOCS=%USERPROFILE%\Documents
For all terminal sessions, you'll need to set a system environment variable. You can do this using the GUI or using setx -m USERDOCS %USERPROFILE\Documents
, as described here.
The command to make this happen would be
explorer %USERDOCS%
But if you wanted to make an alias to that (i.e. a openuserdocs
command), I can update and explain.