What's the exe to get the Environment Variables window?

[Felecha]

I have to open the Environment Variables window many times a day and I would like to be able to just create a shortcut button to it.

I watched in TaskManager as I clicked the System app from Control Panel and saw rundll32.exe come into Task Manager and go when I shut it. But that only gets the System Properties dialog, and running rundll32.exe from the Run applet didnt do anything

 

[Nothinman]

rundll32 does what it's name suggests, it runs a dll. I doubt you'll get directly to the environment variables page, the best you'll probably be able to do is run the system control panel and you can do that by hitting Ctrl+Break.

 

[Felecha]

Oh well, thanks. There's a famous song about this kinda thing

"You can't always git what you wa-ant."

 

[Nothinman]

Yea, sad but true. There's got to be a function to refresh the environment because that dialog manages to do it but I don't know of any app that does it. Which is kind of surprising, actually.

 

[ockky]

you could always just d/l and run the rapidee app found here:
http://www.rapidee.com/en/download

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

closest I could come from a cmd prompt in XP SP3 was

control sysdm.cpl,,3

(note the double comma). that opens System Properties to the Advanced tab but you still have to click the environment variables button. thought there was a way to select buttons with an additional parameter after the "3" but I couldnt get it to work.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: VeryCharBroiled
closest I could come from a cmd prompt in XP SP3 was

control sysdm.cpl,,3

(note the double comma). that opens System Properties to the Advanced tab but you still have to click the environment variables button. thought there was a way to select buttons with an additional parameter after the "3" but I couldnt get it to work.

The short cut key is "n" but I can't find the right syntax either, if there is one.

 

[Felecha]

I like that rapidee.exe

a lot like Redmond Path

http://redmondlab.googlepages.com/path

 

[Ken g6]

Apparently, you can edit the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment registry key to add a new environment variable. However, most of them aren't listed there.

 

[Nothinman]

Apparently, you can edit the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment registry key to add a new environment variable. However, most of them aren't listed there.

And just editing that won't make them take affect immediately, at least not last time I checked.