Timeline for What is the difference between SETX and SET in environment variables in Windows
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 18:49 | comment | added | Mofi |
Users should click on Windows Start menu button, type on keyboard environment and Windows offers in language of Windows Edit the system environment variables and Edit environment variables for your account. Then the user should click on one of the two items to open the dialog window in which the user can modify safely the system and user environment variables. For more details about Path management see also What is the reason for "X is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"?
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 18:43 | comment | added | Mofi |
The redefinition of system or user Path from within a Windows command prompt window or using a batch file is really difficult, see for example Why are other folder paths also added to system PATH with SetX and not only the specified folder path? The batch code in this post is much better, but is nevertheless not 100% fail-safe.
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| Jun 2, 2022 at 18:37 | comment | added | Mofi |
ATTENTION: DO NOT USE THE POSTED COMMAND LINE TO REDEFINE THE SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE PATH! It is an absolute NO GO - NEVER EVER to redefine system or user environment variable Path with command SETX using the string value of the local environment variable referenced with %Path%. The result is a system Path with all environment variable references expanded, with folder paths of user Path appended resulting in duplicates in concatenated local Path and perhaps removed folder paths caused by truncation of command SETX.
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 10:31 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Apr 25, 2018 at 10:14 | history | answered | Renju Jose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |