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Aida E
Aida E

Reputation: 1100

windows 7 : environment variable not working

I added an environment variable "qt" with the value "C:\qt\4.3.4\bin" and also added the path in system variable. the path had the below value and I added new value "C:\qt\4.3.4\bin" to the end of it. but still it doesn't work , any idea what's the problem ?

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\;C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\syswow64;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\RationalSDLC\ClearCase\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\RationalSDLC\common;C:\qt\4.3.4\bin"

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6890

Answers (4)

Armand G.
Armand G.

Reputation: 1935

Remember to close and re-open the command prompt after applying changes to environmental variables!!!!

Upvotes: 1

thoroc
thoroc

Reputation: 3616

I am using this application to see the Environment Variables. And I have discovered they have a listing of Windows environment variables on one of the pages. It makes quite easy to reduce the path, to use the variable name for part of the name.

HTH

Upvotes: 0

Wasafa1
Wasafa1

Reputation: 805

This problem occurs because windows has a limit of 1024 or 2048 chars length in PATH variable. I wrote a small application to take care this problem and reduce unnecessery text from the PATH environment variable in windows 7. It simply removes duplicates and removes paths that are no longer valid.

you can try it out here: https://github.com/AsafShochet/Environment-Path-Variable-Minimizer

Upvotes: 6

Thomas W
Thomas W

Reputation: 14154

If those *** are literally in your PATH variable value, I think that's the problem.

Check that C:\qt\4.3.4\bin exists (and has the executables or DLLs you need) and put it in your path without any strange asterisks.

Upvotes: 0

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