Is there an alias for the home folder in Windows 10?

Question

I need an alias like ~ in Unix to make a program use files from different accounts. Does something like that exist in Windows 10?

Answer 1

I would consider %USERPROFILE% to be the equivalent to $HOME

Other options - depending on how you want to use that in your program - might be %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA%

An annotated list of variables can be found here