Path Editor
Why are you editing your path with this.
When you could be editing your path with this.
If you have ever had need to alter, manage, or otherwise interact with the System or User Path on your PC then you know how painful it is do with the built in tools. Path Editor is a small utility that makes path management very straightforward with it’s intuitive user interface and drag-and-drop simplicity. Path Editor can clean your path of missing and duplicate entries with a single click of the mouse.
Features:
- Friendly intuitive user interface.
- Edit System or Current User Path.
- Edit any HKCU registry key (in advanced mode)
- Optionally display expanded environment variables used in the path.
- Automatically clean path of missing and duplicate entries.
- Rearrange entries using buttons or drag-and-drop.
- Double-click a path entry to open directory in a file explorer.
- Add a directory by dragging the directory (or a file) from a file explorer.
- Use /c on the command line to clean, save, and exit with no user interaction.
- Path Editor is distributed under the Simplified BSD License
- Online Users Manual
Note: Drag-and-dropping directories from Windows Explorer into PathEditor works in Windows XP, but Windows 7’s stricter security policy prevents this from working under Windows 7 since PathEditor runs with elevated privs. (One cannot drag from under-privileged apps to privileged apps.) I’m looking at implementing some other solution that makes it easier to add directories.
(59 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
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Please post any glowing reviews, comments, bug reports in the comments below or on the alternate download sites. This software is donationware. You are free to use it. You are encouraged to donate if you find it useful. You can make a donation from the About… dialog in the application. Of course, if you don’t know what the Path is, then you might not really need this. If you give less than 5 stars, please leave a comment as to why. I cannot make it better without your feedback. I try to fix bugs as soon as they are reported. I also don’t post bug reports (that have been fixed) to the comments because It’s been brought to my attention that some folks may come to the conclusion that none of the reported bugs get fixed. If you do experience a problem, please let me know. Thanks!
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@opendev
You have my authorization to include Path Editor. Thanks.
Great little utility, can’t believe I have tolerated the standard pathetic single text field for so long.
Any chance of an option to change the font, for those among us with a Courier allergy?
Hi borniko,
Great ideas! I’m an old-school courier fan. I grew up with it and it’s my preferred monospaced font. But I can totally understand why others might not like it. It’s not pretty. So…I’ve added the ability to change it. The preference is stored in the registry and is persistent. You can change it by right-clicking in either path list and selecting “Change Font…”. It won’t be hard to find since it’s the only thing there.
I’ll get this update pushed up the to website soon.
I’ve thought about the multiple select feature before, but just haven’t got around to doing it yet. It’s not going to be quite as trivial as adding Font support.
Kevin,
Wow, quick response, and good job! The multiple select thing is a minor thing anyway, especially if it’s a hassle.
Thanks a lot for this fine little program. I won’t need it very often, but when I need it, I’ll be glad it’s there
@Raj
Indispensable tool. Saves time when installing/updating SDKs and databases. Makes path editing fast and easy.
Very very nice tool!
thanks…
…and yes, having a way to edit other system variables, would be great!
alfonso
Lovely tool. I was about to write something like this myself, and on a hunch searched google to see if it had already been done. Yes! And with pretty much exactly what I had in mind that I wanted in the tool. Nicely done.
Thank you thank you thank you! Great to see a developer so responsive, especially of a free piece of software. My computer is much happier. And I understand this was due to behavior of Visual Studio 2008, not something you built into the program, confirming my suspicion this sort of thing is down to Microsoft practices… Keep up the great work!
Kevin, Just want to say thanks for the handy tool. One thing that would be nice to see is a backup/restore feature. The reason for this is recently another vendor’s installer for some reason wiped the entire env path and I had to basically readd each entry back which is why I used your tool to help speed up the process.
Be careful when editing PATHEXT entry as having empty one is not the same as having no entry. It would be nice to have an option to delete entry. See http://superuser.com/questions/341965/ for more details.
Thanks for a nice little tool!
Great utility, completely useful!!
congratulations and thanks so much!
Much appreciated, really.
keep the good job!