Hi, I am trying to come up with a simple way that i can change environment variables and then open a cmd shell in an folder and see the changed variables without re-booting the machine. I run Cmd shell in 2 different ways 1. START-Run-cmd This always opens in some Windows directory. 2. In explorer, i can right click on a folder and open a Cmd shell in that directory. Microsoft have a support tool to do this, but you can do the same with the following registry entries. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell\AcraFlow: Open Cmd Shell] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell\AcraFlow: Open Cmd Shell\command] @="cmd.exe /k pushd %L" I have found 2 useful utilites for setting environment variables, setx.exe and setenv.exe. What i have done so far is 1. created a .bat file to set the environment variable to what i want. I double click on the file to set the variable. setenv -u MYVARIABLE myvalue 2. If i open a command shell as follows, and run the set command, i see the variable MYVARIABLE START-Run-cmd 3. However, if i open a command shell using a right click on a folder in Explorer, and run the set command, i dont see the variable. Why is this? Its very frustrating. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks Delbert.
