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How to Open Environment Variables Editor Directly

Environment Variable Editor

We used to open environment variable editor through the path of opened Control Panel:

Control Panel > System and Security > System

Then we click on "Advanced system settings" on the left side panel to search for environment variable editor. Sometimes, you may take a lot of time to get what you want.

In this post, we want to introduce some ways to open the editor directly.

Open Environment Variables Editor in Run Box

We call a run box to service us, then put the following string in it.

rundll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables

It looks like this:

Open Environment Variables Editor in Run Box
Open Environment Variables Editor in Run Box

A set of keystroke Ctrl + Shift + Enter can make it run as administrator.

Open Environment Variables Editor in cmd.exe

We can also open it in command prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator in Windows platform.

Open Environment Variables Editor in CMD.EXE
Open Environment Variables Editor in CMD.EXE

The editor directly opens like this:

Environment Variables Editor
Environment Variables Editor

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