Comments on: Editing the Windows System Path Variables

By: david

david — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:19:09 +0000

note that your editor “corrected” your normal quotes in the reg add command to smart quotes that aren’t supported by the reg add syntax.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:19:00 +0000

I accidently edited path variable from windows xp, my pc is not starting xp, when i select xp it reboots again and again,

Now i have vista installed on my pc,
pls tell me how to edit xp environment variables from vista?? reply to nitin_sawant89@rediffmail.com

By: Angelo R

Angelo R — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:40:17 +0000

Thanks for this one Martin, it normally takes me a couple minutes of going through the list before I get sick of it and just copy and paste everything into notepad. That way I can at least somewhat make sure I’m not adding things/removing things that I shouldn’t be.

As soon as I ran it, I noticed a few entries that been double-entered as well as one entry that was pointing in the right location.

By: tireless

tireless — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:45:48 +0000

easiest way:
1.run:
reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment” /v Path /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d “%path%;c:\test” /f

2.run:
nircmd sysrefresh

By: mouser

mouser — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:22:34 +0000

cough cough..
from 2005: System Path Commander
(freeware)

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Other/Spc/index.html

“System Path Commander is a power-user tool that allows you to easily and safely non-destructively enable and disable directories in your windows system path environment variable (the paths searched when launching programs).”