Dear All,

How can I add new user environment variable by DOS command???

is it possible?? PLEASE advise

Thanks in advance.

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[year+ old attachment deleted by admin]Why do you need to CREATE a permanent variable?

There's probably a registry hack to do it, but your answer to the question will help decide which way to go.You can do this with the SETX command. It is part of the Windows Support tools.
If you don't have the disc for the support tools I believe it can be downloaded.Thanks Squashman. It is part of Windows 7 now.

This is from the help:

Code: [Select]NOTE: 1) SETX writes variables to the master environment in the registry.

2) On a local system, variables created or modified by this tool
will be AVAILABLE in future command windows but not in the
current CMD.exe command window.

3) On a remote system, variables created or modified by this tool
will be available at the next logon session.

4) The valid Registry Key data types are REG_DWORD, REG_EXPAND_SZ,
REG_SZ, REG_MULTI_SZ.

5) Supported hives: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM),
HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU).

6) Delimiters are case sensitive.

7) REG_DWORD values are extracted from the registry in decimal
format.

Examples:
SETX MACHINE COMPAQ
SETX MACHINE "COMPAQ COMPUTER" /M
SETX MYPATH "%PATH%"
SETX MYPATH ~PATH~
SETX /S system /U user /P password MACHINE COMPAQ
SETX /S system /U user /P password MYPATH ^%PATH^%
SETX TZONE /K HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\
Control\TimeZoneInformation\StandardName
SETX BUILD /K "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber" /M
SETX /S system /U user /P password TZONE /K HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\
StandardName
SETX /S system /U user /P password BUILD /K
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\CurrentBuildNumber" /M
SETX /F ipconfig.out /X
SETX IPADDR /F ipconfig.out /A 5,11
SETX OCTET1 /F ipconfig.out /A 5,3 /D "#$*."
SETX IPGATEWAY /F ipconfig.out /R 0,7 Gateway
SETX /S system /U user /P password /F c:\ipconfig.out /X