{"id":396,"date":"2007-10-03T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/03\/re-sourcing-environment-variables-in-windows\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T15:15:53","slug":"re-sourcing-environment-variables-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/03\/re-sourcing-environment-variables-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Sourcing Environment Variables in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"clip\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\" data=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/clipart\/windows.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I added some Environment Variables to my Windows operating system recently (right-click on My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables).  I was wondering if there is any way from an existing Command Prompt to pick those up.  I know that all Command Prompt instances after this point will have those new environment variables defined, but I was just curious if there was an easy way to get an existing Command Prompt instance to \"re-source\" its environment variables.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, is there any way to add a System Environment Variable to Windows from the command prompt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added some Environment Variables to my Windows operating system recently (right-click on My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables). I was wondering if there is any way from an existing Command Prompt to pick those up. I know that all Command Prompt instances after this point will have those new environment variables defined, but I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,25,11,14,29],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-questions","category-software","category-technology","category-tips","category-windows","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}