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groepaz
groepaz

Reputation: 11

Set persistent systemwide Path in Win 10 Systemenvironment with Powershell

I tried to do it the following way: logged in as Admin, opened cmd as admin

powershell.exe -executionpolicy bypass -command $new= ';C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application'; $env:path += $new ; write-output $env:path; [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('path',$env:path);$env:path

In this session I see the correct Path, opening a new cmd Window the old Path is unchanged.

Thanks for your help

Upvotes: 1

Views: 196

Answers (1)

Leon Bouquiet
Leon Bouquiet

Reputation: 4372

I think you're close enough, you just need to specify Machine scope:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $env:Path + ";C:\Dummy", "Machine")

This doesn't affect the existing Powershell/Cmd sessions, but any new sessions created after this should report C:\Dummy as part of their env:$Path.

Upvotes: 1

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