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Why can't Windows handle an environment variable in Path?

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Mar 15, 202693024 views
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My colleague and I have identical Dell workstations with Windows XP Professional x64 edition installed. My Path environment variable starts with: My colleague's Path variable includes the same directory, specified using the same environment variable, but it is not the first item in his Path. If I a…

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%JAVA_HOME%\bin;...

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Your path is the concatenation of the system path followed by the user path. Additionally, system environment variables may not contain references to user environment variables, and any such references will not be expanded. To get the desired result…

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