Web Guru

I remember when using win2k pro that if I added a directory to PATH all the exe's in that directory immediately become available to my dos shell re, but in advanced server I need to reboot, is there something I can fire up to initialise the environment vars?

Rob Walker

right click on My Computer and select Properties
on the advanced tab there is a bit for environmental variables

but i'm just running normal server edition.. not advanced.

Cheers
Rob

Miles

You can alter the PATH variable without a reboot. Watch out through, IIRC that PATH setting only applies to the current profile not to the whole system.

Right click "My Computer", "Properties", and then "Enviroment Variables". Under "System Variables" is the PATH setting.

Web Guru

Yes I am already editing the PATH in the properties panel my question was how to make it active without rebooting!

Miles

For me in NT/W2K/XP I've edited the PATH without ever needing a reboot - straight out of the box, with no tinkering to prevent reboots

Web Guru

Not in win2K advanced server though!

Miles

Just tested it on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server and a Windows 2000 Server both of which I built and in production a few months ago and neither needed a reboot for the change to take affect.

[Edited by Miles - 8/23/2002 2:56:05 PM]

ChrisB

Just tried on our public web server (Win 2000 AS with SP2)

From a CMD prompt

path {to show the path)

path = %path%;c:\newpath {or whatever to add extra path}

path (to show again, shows modification from line above}

Web Guru

ahh of course didnt think of the command prompt stupid as its how set temp enviroment paths in JRE cheers Chris

Miles

Both ways of changing the PATH variable result in the same end result