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« Reply #25 on: June 29, 2005, 07:14:30 AM »
well it seems you found a super important bug;
i will try to contact chr today and get a new version uploaded asap.
until then, as you say the workaround would be to open the control panel and edit the system path and resave, which should reset it.
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« Reply #26 on: June 29, 2005, 07:39:43 AM »
 
You can't just open System Properties applet and click OK out of it--you need to actually make some sort of change for it to resave the value.  Just make some bogus change (such as adding an "X" to the very end of the path), click OK (actually, click OK twice to be sure; I didn't check to see when System Properties saves changes).  Then go back in and undo the bogus change.

If you want to be sure, open Regedit and navigate to this key to make sure the Path value is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ:

[copy or print]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment
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« Reply #27 on: June 29, 2005, 02:32:57 PM »
new version (1.20) uploaded with fix:

1.20 - 06/29/05
 bugfix for problem reported by scott on the forum:
   http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=222.0
   System Path Commander 1.18 changed the data type of the Path value from
   its default of REG_EXPAND_SZ, to REG_SZ, which could cause windows to
   fail to expand path variables like %SystemRoot% - thanks scott!
 new versions of spc will autocorrect this issue when run for the first time.


thanks chr for the super fast fix, and thanks scott for spotting the issue and diagnosing.
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« Reply #28 on: June 29, 2005, 09:21:19 PM »
Thanks.  Is there any way, with SPC, to add a new entry to the User path, rather than the System path?  (Assuming you're starting with no User path entries at all, so only "SYSTEM.Path" appears in the drop-down list in the first place.)
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« Reply #29 on: July 01, 2005, 04:44:41 AM »
scott, chr sent me new version 1.21 that is supposed to do what you are asking. it's up now.
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« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2005, 12:10:55 PM »
I love it! I've been needing this since I stopped using win9x. I had to browse through a mess of chunk everytime I needed to change my system's path. Thank you, guys.
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« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2005, 02:09:23 PM »
the only thing this needs that i keep on chr to figure out a trick to solve is that sometimes after you make a change its not reflected in the system right away - it requires either a reboot or easier just go to control panel, click edit path, click ok, to have the system do a little pause and flash and load the new path.
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« Reply #32 on: September 26, 2005, 01:38:10 PM »
It is strange that no body mentioned about the EVE ...stands for Environment Variable Editor
Here is the Link for the software

http://torry.net/apps/utilities/system/eve.zip

Using this all of the system variables can be edited... best of all it is is FREE
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« Reply #33 on: September 26, 2005, 01:51:07 PM »
great find zeemar, never heard of that one.
more info on torry's site:
http://www.torry.net/authorsmore.php?id=919

i'll add it to the system path commander help file list of related programs.


ps.
the new versions of system path commander do in fact now update the path immediately after changes.
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