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?

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Not in win2K advanced server though!

 

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]

 

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}

 

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

 

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