setx – Tarik Billa

SETX doesn’t append path to system path variable

December 21, 2023 by Tarik

To piggy-back on @Endoro’s answer (I lack the rep to comment): If you want to change the system-wide environment variables, you have to use /M, a la: setx PATH “%PATH%;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin” /M setx.exe is picky about placement of the /M, BTW. It needs to be at the end.

How do I add to the Windows PATH variable using setx? Having weird problems

January 5, 2023 by Tarik

Run cmd as administrator, then: setx /M PATH “%PATH%;<your-new-path>” The /M option sets the variable at SYSTEM scope. The default behaviour is to set it for the USER. TL;DR The truncation happens because when you echo %PATH% you get the concatenation of SYSTEM and USER values so, when you add it in your second argument … Read more