Setting environment variables

[Guest]

I was hoping to see this improved in Vista, but it's not there (yet).

Windows has a poor interface for editing environment variables. In the
System Properties dialog, under the Advanced Tab, click the "Environment
Variables" button: "Edit" any variable, and you will be given a
non-growable, non-scrollable dialog to edit the variable. Especially for
developers, when editing the PATH or include-directories, this is extremely
cumbersome. I had hoped that this interface would have improved (for a good
alternative, look at the way this is handled in Visual Studio -- under a
project's properties, go into the C/C++ folder, then click "General". In
the "Addition include directories" field, click the "..." button to pop the
interface to add things to the path. This is beautiful).

Just my two cents.

 

[Guest]

I was hoping to see this improved in Vista, but it's not there (yet).

Windows has a poor interface for editing environment variables. In the
System Properties dialog, under the Advanced Tab, click the "Environment
Variables" button: "Edit" any variable, and you will be given a
non-growable, non-scrollable dialog to edit the variable. Especially for
developers, when editing the PATH or include-directories, this is extremely
cumbersome. I had hoped that this interface would have improved (for a good
alternative, look at the way this is handled in Visual Studio -- under a
project's properties, go into the C/C++ folder, then click "General". In
the "Addition include directories" field, click the "..." button to pop the
interface to add things to the path. This is beautiful).

When you install Visual Studio you also get a Visual Studio Command
Prompt installed (it actually starts normal cmd.exe and runs a .bat-file
setting all the environment variables). You can do the same thing.
Personally I think the command Prompt is so horrible that I try to avoid
using it at all cost.

 

[Steve Urbach]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:33:02 -0700, Call me Bill <Call me

I was hoping to see this improved in Vista, but it's not there (yet).

Windows has a poor interface for editing environment variables. In the
System Properties dialog, under the Advanced Tab, click the "Environment
Variables" button: "Edit" any variable, and you will be given a
non-growable, non-scrollable dialog to edit the variable. Especially for
developers, when editing the PATH or include-directories, this is extremely
cumbersome. I had hoped that this interface would have improved (for a good
alternative, look at the way this is handled in Visual Studio -- under a
project's properties, go into the C/C++ folder, then click "General". In
the "Addition include directories" field, click the "..." button to pop the
interface to add things to the path. This is beautiful).

Just my two cents.

Regedit
HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\environment