re: From MSI to WiX, Part 13 - Installable Items - Environment variable

edward Jones — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:25:33 GMT

Hi Alex,

As you see, I am appending a value to my path. I am putting an exe in the dir that refers to [path_configmgmt]. The path is being set. But when I say start-->Run it says the exe is not found. However, when I open the env window mannually and open the path variable and click OK, with out making any changes, the start-->Cmd works. It works after I just visit the env window mannually. What might be happening ?

re: From MSI to WiX, Part 13 - Installable Items - Environment variable

jaywalker — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:09:42 GMT

@edward jones - I have seen the same behavior when adding an environment variable (on Windows Server 2003). New console windows don't seem to inherit it unless you go in and touch it in the control panel env window. I wonder if the shell somehow is not getting the WM_SETTINGCHANGE message... We resorted to scheduling a reboot, which otherwise would have been unnecessary.