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Kevin Bridges
Kevin Bridges

Reputation: 186

system environment variables not working

I cannot access my system environment variables from my administrative user account. I am still able to access my user environment variables though. When I try to access SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe from the Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > System > Advanced system settings, I get an error: "Windows cannot find %windir%\system32\systempropertiesadvance.exe"

From a cmd window, I entered "echo %windir%" and it wasn't set. After that I entered "set" and saw only user environment variables. I navigated to: C:\Windows\System32 and ran SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe. This worked and I saw my complete list of system variables, but I'm wondering if there is a setting I can adjust which will allow my user account access to the system variables.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5385

Answers (2)

Ondřej Machota
Ondřej Machota

Reputation: 19

  1. Go to C:\Windows\System32\ and find SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe.
  2. Start the program and click on Environment Variables button.
  3. Then add new (Name: windir, Value: %SystemRoot%) to system variables.

Upvotes: 1

Kevin Bridges
Kevin Bridges

Reputation: 186

I think I did have access, but the problem was that my user and system %PATH% variables were different. I'm not sure, but I think the user variables are used before system variables. I compared the values of user vs system and my user variable was much smaller. With this I concluded that it mush have been trying to access the wrong variable. Now I don't get the error messages anymore.

Upvotes: 0

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