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Why am I able to execute a program that is not in my PATH environment variable?

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Mar 15, 20264090 views
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Problem

I was wondering why the command is globally accessible? I could run it from any directory and its working: How does it work? This is what my system variable looks like: As for me, is located in

Error Output

C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;
%SystemRoot%\system32;
%SystemRoot%;
%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\Window…

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Fix for: Why am I able to execute a program that is not in my PATH environment variable?

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Typically, there is a group of directories where executable files that are repeatedly used are to be found by your Windows, but in pratice there is no specific reason to use a command as global or not. Developers used to include it as "global" where…

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