Editing your PC's environment variables can save you time in Command Prompt and make your scripts more concise. It also lets you customize where Windows stores certain files. This is what you need to ...

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Using environment variables is one of the ways that Windows communicates information such as the location of system files and folders -- as set up on your particular computer -- to programs.

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