Cannot recover the path variable

Question

I was editing the Path variable in the system section and I accidentally deleted the whole Path variable from System section, I tried using echo %PATH% to restore the variable but, it doesn't work as I was having Python installed working fine with command prompt but now it says Python not found, but the folder is still in the variable value.

Please tell how can I get my variable Path back working as before. Pls reply

Answer 1

Hi Priyanshu

Here is the base set of Path variables from my PC:

C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\OpenSSH;

If needs be, create that Path Variable, then click Edit Text and paste the above into that.

Answer 2

I have tried to find them on the internet, because I do not have another PC but was not able to get, is there any website where these values are provided ?

Answer 3

Hi Priyanshu

Yes, there are a default set of entries in that Path variable that exist on all Windows PC;s

You can copy them out to a text file by double clicking the Path Variable on another PC, then click 'Edit as Text'

Then paste that long string into Notepad, then edit out the specific paths to that PC, they usually are related to installed software.

Then on your PC, create a new system variable, name it Path and using the 'Edit as Text' option paste those values into that variable.

Answer 4

Thanks for the reply,

I found that for the system section, the Path variable have some common values fo all windows 10, some values are like %SystemRoot% or something like that, it is common for all systems, if I could get only those values, maybe it will be fixed. There were 100 of system restore on my PC so I deleted them a couple of weeks ago.

Answer 5

Hi Priyanshu,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The PATH variable will be different on most PC's so you cannot copy that out of another PC, the only real hope you would have is to perform a system restore to a date prior to when you deleted that variable, or if you had a Registry backup you could restore from.