Timeline for What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 10:20 | answer | added | Raf | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 20:44 | comment | added | Royi | Great post about it: windows-commandline.com/set-path-command-line | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 9:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/577403243879407616 | ||
| Mar 9, 2015 at 18:12 | comment | added | Brian Burns | If you're editing the path variable a lot (like when setting up a new system), it might help to have a shortcut to the System Properties dialog on the desktop. To do so, right click on the desktop, select New Shortcut, and enter systempropertiesadvanced.exe. Then you can click on the link to get to the System Properties dialog, then click on Environment Variables to get to the dialog with the path settings. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 14:09 | history | protected | Nifle | ||
| Jul 25, 2014 at 9:57 | answer | added | Paul V | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:18 | history | wiki removed | Ivo Flipse | ||
| Feb 25, 2014 at 0:17 | comment | added | paradroid |
I think it's faster and clearer by opening CMD and typing set, or PowerShell and typing Get-Childitem env:.
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| Feb 25, 2014 at 0:10 | comment | added | Yufan Lou |
In Windows 8, the fastest navigation to changing system and user environment variables is using search. <kbd>Win</kbd>+<kbd>W</kbd> brings up the search for all settings. Search for env and the needed options are listed.
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| Jan 15, 2014 at 17:49 | answer | added | Billy McCloskey | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 16:59 | comment | added | termil0r | On Windows there is a shortcut for opening properties of System ie. Control Panel -> System It's WIN key on keyboard + Pause/Break (WIN+Break). This is extremely helpful and speeding up process of setting new environmental variables on Win8 because there you have to click through several windows in modern ui (Yeah. If it's modern then I'll grow a cactus on my palm) which is just annoying. Of course you can create powershell script or use setx command and don't worry any more about it :D | |
| Apr 16, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | Haroon Q. Raja | Tired of having to do it manually each time I needed to, I wrote some registry entries to add context menu entries for AddToPath and RemoveFromPath to folders, utilizing a free app called pathed.exe . Following is the link to the complete guide: addictivetips.com/windows-tips/… I can now very easily add folders to PATH variable or remove them from it, without having to edit any file or worry about messing up the formatting of the variable. Hope it helps. =) | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 12:08 | history | edited | Daniel Beck♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
made question broader, as this topic covers much more than setting the path
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| Jun 1, 2011 at 22:33 | history | edited | nhinkle |
Graduated to community-faq
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| May 25, 2011 at 4:29 | history | bounty ended | Sathyajith Bhat♦ | ||
| May 19, 2011 at 3:28 | history | bounty started | Sathyajith Bhat♦ | ||
| May 16, 2011 at 19:03 | answer | added | grawity_u1686 | timeline score: 81 | |
| May 16, 2011 at 18:44 | answer | added | Daniel Beck♦ | timeline score: 394 | |
| May 16, 2011 at 18:25 | history | asked | slhck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |