Why is Path variable behaving like other user variables in “Edit environment variables for your account”?

I tried to add a path to the Path variable using chatgpt prompts (which I should not have done)

setx Path "%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%"

Now I can’t see the old path variables nor add new path variables. The system functions fine until now but I don’t know what I should do to revert back the behaviour.

  • spidermanOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t do that since this is a work laptop with restrictions.

      • spidermanOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have a ControlSet002 folder on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

        Update: I checked out ControlSet001 and it had all the previous path. I cannot copy them since I didn’t have enough permissions in my work laptop. But like I said in above comments, doing echo $:PATH displayed the previous path variables which I copied and pasted on the Path variable. I think adding multiple path variable enables the option to add, edit etc. Idk whether I recovered all the previous path variables but it’s just functioning fine.