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…pe of Path - update it The current example will change the underlying data type of the Path environment variable (in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment) from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_SZ, which will have undesirable consequences down the line, as REG_EXPAND_SZ is the required data type if you wish to use unexpanded paths in the Path statement...
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More background on the issue - MS is apparently not going to fix: |
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…pe of Path - update it
The current example will change the underlying data type of the Path environment variable (in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment) from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_SZ, which will have undesirable consequences down the line, as REG_EXPAND_SZ is the required data type if you wish to use unexpanded paths in the Path statement... such as %SystemRoot% 😮