Comments on: Path Editor

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:44:03 +0000

@Rob
Sorry – meant to say “from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_SZ”.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:43:14 +0000

A few suggested fixes:
1. In the registry, Path Editor changes the Type of the PATH key (in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Session Manager\Environment) from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_EXPAND.

The prevents the Command Prompt (at least in Windows 7) from expanding variables like %SystemRoot%, causing basic Windows programs like NOTEPAD and PING to no longer be found (as it doesn’t parse “SystemRoot\system32;”%SystemRoot;%systemRoot\system32\Wbem” correctly).

2. Path Editor always terminates the PATH with a final “;”. This is not common practice; I have encountered some other programs that try to add directories to the PATH and always start by adding a “;”. This results in the PATH containing “;;”, which the Command Prompt does not like (it fails to find any programs in directories after that). Although I don’t think Path Editor is technically wrong here, it would be more compatible if it omitted the final “;”.

By: Nathan Lewis

Nathan Lewis — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:52:44 +0000

Does not work properly on Windows 7. It changes the PATH in the registry from REG_EXPAND_SZ to REG_SZ and then environment variables won’t expand anymore.

By: Tim Tabor

Tim Tabor — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:45:40 +0000

This looks great, but … I downloaded the current msi from the website and installed it and tried to run it. The cursor flashes and the process silently quits. I’ve tried re-downloading, re-installing, and rebooting. Any ideas?

By: fabio vitale

fabio vitale — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:55:39 +0000

Hi, great work, just downloaded latest 2.0.2.2, but when installed it says still v.2.0.2.1, so I cannot use the useful /C clean switch on command line ((

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By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:07:34 +0000

Kevin, Just want to say thanks for the handy tool. One thing that would be nice to see is a backup/restore feature. The reason for this is recently another vendor’s installer for some reason wiped the entire env path and I had to basically readd each entry back which is why I used your tool to help speed up the process.

By: Bodo

Bodo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:06:26 +0000

Thanks Kevin, I’ll give this a try. I didn’t find the forced start menu entry as aggravating as Aaron did, mainly because it happened quite rarely with the latest build (I still don’t understand why), but it would be great to have it let me keep my own start menu all the time. Thanks for fixing this.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:40:09 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you! Great to see a developer so responsive, especially of a free piece of software. My computer is much happier. And I understand this was due to behavior of Visual Studio 2008, not something you built into the program, confirming my suspicion this sort of thing is down to Microsoft practices… Keep up the great work!

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:46:02 +0000

I just bumped the version to 2.0.2.1 to fix an annoyance where the RegExFolder in the Start Menu could not be moved or renamed without the application recreating the original Start Menu entry the next time it was started.