Updating the PATH Variable in Windows 10

September 12, 2018 by Michael

Various command line tools will ask you to add the path to the binary folder to your system’s PATH variable.  If you’re relatively new to this sort of tooling, you may not know how to do that.

Follow the steps below to alter the PATH environment variable in Windows 10:

1. Press the  key
2. Type “advanced system” immediately after pressing the  key
3. Click on View advanced system settings under the Best match heading

4. Select Environment Variables
5. In the System variables section, look for the PATH (or Path) variable
6. Click on Edit

From here you can either add a new value or edit an existing one.  Most of the time you will be looking to add a new value.  I’m going to assume you’ve got it from here.