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system variable not set on remote machine by psexec

Need to set-up system variable on remote machine. Performing psexec \\remote_machine cmd /c setx foo bar got reply Success: Entered value was saved cmd exited on remote_machine with error code 0 ...
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Different behaviour of cmd depending on the form of the path string

In cmd window I can't cd to a directory if it is set by a user environment variable. The variable content is OK. If I cd to the directory set by the content of the variable, it works OK, too. Could ...
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Git bash and cmd don't load my user account PATH variable

Start up a gitbash or a windows cmd session and run echo $PATH or echo %PATH% They both print the contents of the system PATH variable, but neither prints the contents of the PATH variable ...
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'sample.exe' not recognised as internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Under Environment Variables, I set the path to sample.exe. I appended the System variable PATH with, C:\Program Files(x86)\Sample The sample.exe is in the Sample folder. Still, I get the above ...
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Evaluate %PATH% as the system-scope environment variable exclusively

In Windows' command line, echo %PATH% appears to merge the system and the user variables PATH in such order before printing. That seems reasonable, but I would also like to be able to print only the ...
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Why are the PATH environment variables handled differently when I run cmd.exe as admin?

Original post: When I start cmd.exe normally, my PATH variable only contains the paths from the system environment variable. Only when I start cmd.exe as admin does PATH contain a concatenation of ...
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