Be careful about changing those variables, I did that, ended up putting them back to default, 'cause a few program installations which were "hard-wired" to do things only one certain way, did not react well to the "missing" default setting.
AndreyT, I'm with you on this one, and I have to say some parts of this OS look really amateurish...
Anyway, if you want to be able to change the environment variables as conveniently as before, you can make some slight changes to the SystemPropertiesAdvanced executable, located inside the System32 folder. I mean a copy of it, of course.
You have to change its manifest so that it can run as a regular user. Fortunately, there's a nice tool called CFF Explorer that can do just that, part of the Explorer suite at ntcore.com. Open the executable with CFF Explorer, go to Resource Editor => Configuration Files => 1. Right click, choose Save Resource (Raw), and save it wherever you like, a txt extension would be a good choice. Open the saved file with a text editor, it's the manifest. You have to replace "requireAdmin" with "asInvoker". In the CFF Explorer window, right click the resource again, and choose "Replace resource", then select the file you just edited. Finally click the save button in the CFF Explorer menu bar, overwrite the executable, and voilą, you can change non admin user environment variables with it.
Notice how buttons to change the system env variables are greyed out. This means some people thought it can be executed as non admin, I guess...
In case you're lazy or in a hurry, here's the file (64-bit), signed by me in an attempt to add some security. My SHA1 fingerprint is 94 bf 0f 7d 05 51 5a 80 ba 1d e2 67 7c d7 ed 4e ec ae fd cd.
I can send you an unsigned version if you prefer, and/or its 32-bit counterpart, located in the SysWOW64 directory for 64-bit systems.
Hope this helps !
Hello, I just had the exact same problem, and because the solution does not appear here I write it down:
1) When you go to the Windows Search (bottom left), and type "System", Type in Admin User/PW, then click on "Advanced Settings", then on "Advanced", then on "Environment Variables", thhen under User Variables, you would see the User variables of the Admin User!, not the actual user". I had the same problem, that I wanted to change the User Enviroment Vars, but did not find it here. See 2)
2) Instead, when you start over again, on the Search (bottom left), when you type "Environment Variables" or for German Windows "Umgebungsvariablen", then you end up directly at the Window where you can change the Environment Variables for this particular user (not the Admin).
This works for me well.
This issue has been fixed in current (version 1809) Windows 10. Either going to Control Panel > User Accounts > "Change my environment variables"
or PC Settings > type "env" in search box > choose "Edit environment variables for your account", allows a non-admin user to edit their
own e.v.'s in the usual e.v. dialog box.
Maybe try the portable version of this:
About - Rapid Environment Editor
It works for me but I'm on:
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