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For some bizarre reason our corporation has disabled access to modify our own environment variables, they've actually set every single modifiable group policy to disallow us from doing anything, creating a huge amount of red tape.

I've now realised that while I can't manipulate my environment variables through the control panel, I can actually get to the screen by typing "Environment variable" into the start search and I can then execute Edit environment variables for your account.

I'm wondering what the application/target is that this executes to allow me to document this directly for a procedure.

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  • What a bunch of mindless control freaks.
    – Moab
    May 1, 2016 at 16:32

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Run this (change Windows path to match your setup):

"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables
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  • That's the ticket, thanks! Needed to unquote the exe though. :)
    – Brett Ryan
    May 1, 2016 at 9:05
  • Any idea if there's a way to make my path appear before the system path? Need to override the systems installed java 1.5 to 1.8.
    – Brett Ryan
    May 1, 2016 at 9:50

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