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You can use 'set' to view envars. Want to see your postgres envars? Type 'set pg' and it will show anything starting with 'pg'. You can use 'setx' to permanent

• noinsight 11y ago
  Or you can just use PowerShell, which allows you to manipulate all kinds of things in a filesystem-like manner (PSProviders): Get-ChildItem env: New-Item -Path "env:\myvar" -Value "MyValue" Amongst other things, it works for the registry and even Active Directory. Edit: for persistency you actually need to use [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("TestVariable", "Test value.", "User")
  • ygra 11y ago
    I answered an interesting SO question on that recently, which asked how to save and restore the environment in PowerShell. Turns out, the environment being in a PSDrive helps very much with that because you can treat the variables just like you treat files: # Save environment $savedState = Get-ChildItem Env: # Restore environment Remove-Item Env:* $savedState | ForEach-Object { Set-Content Env:$($_.Name) $_.Value }