Saturday, January 2, 2010

Windows 7 bug: no way to edit environment varibale graphically

When you try to change environment variable by clicking on "Computer\RightClick\Properties\Advanced System Settings", it will ask for "admin" password. Once you enter admin password, go to "System Properties\Advanced\Environment Variables". Here, you get a choice to change environment variable of "Admin" account or the "System".

So, only way to change your environment variable is to directly edit registry. This is a bug, since I was able to do this in Windows XP. On other note, why changing your own environment variable is a "System property"? It should be a user account property.

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