Recently having to set my PATH environment variable installing the JDK, I found it quite annoying that the box where you set environment variables was not re-sizable, and had was generally quite horrible to edit.
Aside from MS just not making this more UI-friendly, I was wondering if this was built as such for a reason, or if we are hanging onto some legacy code that is affecting this.
Any ideas?
I'm going to blow your mind here, but as of Windows 10 build 10565, this window is finally resizeable.
https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/h1En1s5abJs
Maybe you'd like this nifty tool I've been using for a while, ResizeEnable. It allows you to resize windows that are normally not resizable:
I don't get it at all. It's completely unnecessarily painful.
Use Windows Path Editor instead. It'll make life a lot easier and less error prone (I realise this doesn't answer your question per se, but is offered as general advice!)
Anything that is considered a dialog by Windows isn't resizable. And that includes, unfortunatelly, the aforementioned as well.
This is because of the size of the app. Go to the Display settings and change the size of the app to 150%. Problem solved.
While it indeed may have been built to make power user heads expode everywhere, I find the setx command to be a frequently viable way around it, e.g.:
setx HOME "%USERPROFILE%"
