Setting User Environment Variables

[andrew.oberstar]

Is there any way to set user environment variables?

I didn't see any threads on the forum or anything in the help relating to this.

[linder]

Andrew,

You can use the "Edit Environment Variable..." script function to add and remove (system) environment variables.

User-specific variables are located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment. You can't handle this from an elevated running installer, so "user-specific" environment variable manipulation is not built-in and you have to handle this via the registry functions. Please note that you should never do any per-user data manipulation from an elevated running app because you are doing this in the wrong user context if the app has administrator execution level privileges.

Does this help?

Friedrich

[andrew.oberstar]

Yes it does. Thank you.

[linder]

You are very welcome :)

Friedrich