change system wide PATH variable in Windows

This is utterly simple and mostly you did it with the mouse.

To do it with command line and powershell, proceed this way.

Open a powershell window

powershell

or if you have no right to edit the machine-wide environment, runas admin

runas /user:yourdomain\youruserplusadmin powershell

then access the environment assembly

[environment]::setEnvironmentVariable("PATH","c:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\WINDOWS\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\Program Files\Putty;C:\Program Files\Perforce;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0","MACHINE")

MACHINE is a for a Machine-wide setting and USER is for a USER-wide setting.

I hope it will be of some use

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