Windows Environment Variables Editor

The most significant change in Environment variables editor 1.5 is standalone editors for both System PATH and User PATH variables. There you can easily add a new directory to the PATH, change the order of PATH fragments, format it, even reset the value of the variable to its default one. The application automatically highlights any wrong PATH fragments, so you can remove them.

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Following the idea from our UserVoice site that suggests to provide editor for User PATH as well, we added the feature in Windows Environment Variables Editor 1.5 Beta 6:

So starting from this version, there will be 2 PATH variable editors: for System and for User ones. Their functionality will be equal except that User PATH editor doesn’t have “Default value” button and there is no such value and initially User PATH variable is empty.

Both editors are available from Control Panel as well:

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P.S.
This is beta version, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

Environment Variables Editor 1.5 Beta 5 helps you to simplify the task of changing order of PATH variable entries. Just open the Path editor tab, select the desired entry or even bunch of them and take them to a better place with “↑ Move up” or “↓ Move down” buttons.

In case you are a keyboard lover (as I am), you are more than welcome to use Alt + ↑ and Alt + ↓.

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P.S.
Again, it is in beta stage, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

This time a feature allowing to reset PATH variable to default is added. So in case you messed up the PATH and want to start from scratch, this would be a right way to go.

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P.S.
Again, it is in beta stage, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

Hi there!

Windows environment variables editor 1.5 beta 3 now validates each %PATH% variable fragment and highlights the faulty ones. A fragment can represent a directory or another environment variable. In latter case it will be expanded prior to validation.

Download the beta and enjoy!

P.S.
Again, it is in beta stage, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

Beta 2 of the upcoming Eveditor 1.5.0 is ready for download. It contains a bunch of fixes and new button in PATH editor that allows to easily select and add a directory to Windows PATH variable.

Download and enjoy!

P.S.
Again, it is in beta stage, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

Hi folks,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Today Eveditor 1.5 Beta 1 is available for download. It includes the standalone PATH editor with nice multiline formatting.

P.S.
As it is in beta stage, don’t forget to backup your PATH variable before playing with the editor.

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Starting from version 1.4, environment variables management becomes even easier — Eveditor now is accessible right from Windows Control Panel:

In Control Panel Category view, you may directly access the tasks of managing User or System environment variables.

In addition, we’ve updated icons used in the application with high quality ones provided by Windows, so now we expect them to scale pretty good. For example, here is a screenshot of Eveditor running on Windows 8 with 2880x1800px resolution with 200% scale. And yes, the icons are getting better with every new version of Windows!

Back to school! =)

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Today we are sharing the new version of Eveditor with everyone.
The change list for 1.3 version was described in the previous post. However, there is one minor addition:

In earlier versions we used the same yellow lock icon for 2 categories of variables: for protected ones (unless you are under Administrator account) and for those, that are automatically populated by OS (so no one could change them).
Starting from version 1.3 we use different icons for those 2 categories of variables:

Now yellow lock icon shows that the corresponding variable is protected and can’t be edited in any case. Such variables are not stored in windows registry, they are created by OS and placed right in Explorer.exe process space.
Shield icon indicates that the variable requires administrator privileges.

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Thanks everyone for the feedback!

Eveditor 1.3.0 is mostly dedicated to the following:

1. Support for expandable variables
2. Serious refactoring and re-organization of internal application structure, big step towards better testability and extensibility.

Whilst the second one is not visible to end-user and is under-the-hood work, the first feature provides the ability to include other environment variables inside your own ones. For example, if you declare

MyFolder = %SystemDrive%\MyFolder

then MyFolder variable will be automatically expanded to:

C:\MyFolder path (presuming that OS is installed on C: drive).

The same way any environment variable can be used inside another. Eveditor will automatically expand any variable and display the resulting value.

Note, Eveditor 1.3.0 is still development release, use with caution.

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Thanks everyone for the feedback! It was very helpful!