Environment Variables in Window: Creating a New One or Setting New Value 👨‍💻🆘💻
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2018-04-10

👍 Watch about environment variables in Windows and why we need them. How to add a program to variables to enable quick start from the command prompt, how to use short paths to system folders, and how to find and and view environment variables in the registry and in the command prompt.

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Environment variable is a very useful function mostly demanded by system administrators. Most often, they are required to write universal scripts running on computers with various settings which may change. Also, in Windows there is an environment variable “Path” which allows quicker access to programs from the command prompt and without using the path to the folder containing such a program.

Contents: 
0:00 - Intro;
1:24 - Adding a folder to the “path” variable; 
3:01 - Viewing environment variables in windows registry; 
4:01 - How to create a shortcut using a short path, and how to work with variables;

The list of variables: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-recognized-environment-variables

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