Environmental Variables in NT or 2000

[tmluke]

Is there a way I can edit the environment variable in windows NT or 2000? I got it figured out for Win 95/98/ME PC's (Autoexec.bat), but I'm having trouble with the Nt.

Thanks,


------------------

[Darryl]

System Variables (environment variables available to all users of the
system) are set in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session
Manager\Environment

You just create a key with the name of the variable and the value is the
variable's value. NOTE: When setting variables in the Registry like this, the
system MUST be restarted for them to take effect.

So, for example, if I make a variable called "SUF60PROGRAM" and assign the
value of "C:\Program Files\Setup Factory 6.0 Demo\SUF60Design.exe" to it
and the restart the computer, I can go to Start > Run and type in
%SUF60PROGRAM% and Setup Factory 6.0 will start.

User variables (environment variables available to only the current user)
are set in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

registry key. They can be set the same way as above.


Here are some links for further reading:
http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=5379

and
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q100/8/43.asp

------------------
Sincerely,

Darryl Hnatiuk
Indigo Rose Corporation