Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10

Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by DonSchuler on Monday October 26, 2015 @12:21AM (#10449600)

>> What's completely inexplicable is why it took 23 years to do this.

That is an interesting statement. The reason why this little piece of work (similiar a resizable cmd window) hasn't been done before shows the fundamental differences between Linux and Windows in what the creators think it was made for. 99 % of the Windows users will never use the env var dialog. Microsoft gave the other 1 % (devs) Microsoft obviously a very low priority in the past.

That has changed. While I like Windows 10 overall, I still wish it was not so chatty. I don't want to need to think about what kind of personal information my devices steal and how to protect myself. I don't like it from my Android phone and I don't like it from my laptop.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by jmnicolas on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:29AM (#10450267)

"Microsoft gave the other 1 % (devs) Microsoft obviously a very low priority in the past."

You know there's a lot of bad things to say about Microsoft (I still can't get other the "telemetry updates" and I'm seriously studying moving to Ubuntu 15.10) but saying MS gave developers a very low priority is probably the mots unjust criticism you could ever give them and tells me you probably never developed anything on Windows.

I'd go even as far as to say that MS is the most developer friendly corp out there. The amount of effort they put in their tools, languages, frameworks, whatever is impressive. It's easy and it just works.

Microsoft is to devs what Apple is to users.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by bboreham on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:20AM (#10450082)

> resizable cmd window

A couple of people have referred to this, but I've been resizing CMD windows for over a decade. Maybe you mean you couldn't increase the width by dragging, only via a dialog?

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by shrikant on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:38AM (#10450121)

When I try to maximise the the Cmd window, this[0] is the best that is achievable without custom apps. This is regardless of using either the horizontal resize handles or the Window Size properties.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/GAbg5TR.png

Edited to add: This is Windows 7, 64-bit.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by Natsu on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:13AM (#10450227)

Click the icon in the upper left, then go to Properties | Layout | Window Size. The size is measured in characters.

It's rather inconvenient, though.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by bboreham on Monday October 26, 2015 @05:33AM (#10450281)

Nitpick: first you need to increase the "Screen Buffer Size" width, then you can change the Window Size width too.

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Re:Environment Variables and Path in Windows 10 by shrikant on Monday October 26, 2015 @12:28PM (#10452441)

Huh, this worked -- wow, TIL, thanks! (You would still have to pry Cmder out of my cold dead Windows 7 hands though...)

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