{"id":76001,"date":"2016-01-02T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2016\/01\/02\/powertip-set-personal-environment-variable-from-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:20:26","slug":"powertip-set-personal-environment-variable-from-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-set-personal-environment-variable-from-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Set Personal Environment Variable from PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Access the $ENV<\/b> object in Windows PowerShell to alter personal environment settings.<\/p>\n

\"Hey, How can I use Windows PowerShell to change a system environment variable such as the user %TEMP%?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, You can read any personal environment settings by using $ENV:VariableName, then assigning a value.
           For example, to change your personal %TEMP% to a new location, use:<\/p>\n

$ENV:Temp=C:\\Foo<\/p>\n

Note<\/b> This presumes C:\\Foo exists and will alter the variable for the present PowerShell session.<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Access the $ENV object in Windows PowerShell to alter personal environment settings.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to change a system environment variable such as the user %TEMP%?  You can read any personal environment settings by using $ENV:VariableName, then assigning a value.            For example, to change your personal %TEMP% to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,356,154,45],"class_list":["post-76001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-sean-kearney","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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