Question

I’ve seen posts asking about how to get environment variables to be refreshed without having to close VStudio, but for me, I just want to know how I can make the changes without having to restart my system. I really don’t understand how it can’t detect the new changes – I’ve totally made sure the process is not hanging around and even used the vcvars32.bat to pick up new changes before re-opening. I can’t find a solution. My environment variables can be used from elsewhere (ie. %variablename% works in cmd.exe). Any ideas?

Answer 1

The environment that is being used is the one from windows explorer. You would have to restart explorer for the changes to appear.

There is a way to apply the changes to the current environment. You might want to try SuperUser.com