Environmental Variables defined with other Environmental Variables?

Question

Hello folks:

I'm using Windows 10.

I have an environmental variable, UTILITIES_PATH, that identifies a folder with, among other things, property sheets used by Visual Studio.

Now I want an environmental variable to identify the property sheets directory.

Attempts to define an environmental variable PROPERTY_SHEETS_PATH to %UTILITIES_PATH%\code\property_sheets doesn't seem to work.

It seems the problem is having an environmental variable that has another environmental variable in it's definition.

Is there a way around this limitation?

I'm using the Environmental Variables window child of the System Properties window to set the variable.

The tag below is useless. No tag related to this question seems to be allowed.

Thanks
Larry

Answer 1

Some possibilities here.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3594846/limits-on-windows-environment-variable-nesting

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Answer 2

Thanks DSPatrick:

So I can't do this unless I change one or both of the environmental variable names so the property path variable's name follows the utility path's name?

I appreciate you letting me know. I don't appreciate Windows.

Larry