Timeline for User vs. System Environment Variables: Do System Variables Override User Variables?
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| Jun 1 at 8:37 | comment | added | Mofi |
Please take a look on What is the reason for "X is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"? The referenced answer explains in full details how the environment variable PATH is managed by Windows respectively the Windows shell (=explorer.exe).
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| Apr 17, 2018 at 9:28 | answer | added | JonathanDavidArndt | timeline score: 17 | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 2:57 | history | edited | I say Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed tags as question is not OS specific
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| Sep 5, 2015 at 1:02 | comment | added | End Antisemitic Hate | @Chad Isn't the answer you accepted below the exact opposite of your experience? How do you explain the discrepancy? | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 2:08 | vote | accept | Ivan | ||
| Feb 16, 2015 at 0:34 | answer | added | I say Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 71 | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 0:07 | history | edited | I say Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improved grammar, tags, title
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| Jan 21, 2015 at 19:06 | history | migrated | from serverfault.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 21, 2015 at 17:55 | comment | added | Ivan | JosefZ: yes, I added the two environment variables, one USER the other SYSTEM, both with the same name, using teh Windows 7 GUI similar to the screens shown inyour link. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 21:53 | comment | added | JosefZ | What procedure used for adding a user variable of the same name as a system variable? Something like? | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 17:56 | comment | added | Ivan | I rebooted and still when I run "echo %path%" from a cmd.exe window, it displays my system env variable, not the value of the user variable. So, I deleted the User variable, o Admin access, changed my System path variable and the did teh same echo cmd. The updated env value was displayed w/o rebooting. This tells me that USER vars do not override system vars and that a reboot isn't necessary. Neitehr is what I expected. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 16:30 | comment | added | Zoredache | When you change variables you often have to completely restart Windows. Changing a variable in the settings will not change running processes. New processes copy the environment from running processes (depending on how they are started), so simply starting a process doesn't mean you get a new environment. | |
| Jan 20, 2015 at 15:50 | history | asked | Ivan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |