How to add multiple PATHs to the System Variable in Environment Variables in Windows 10?

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the-unreal picture the-unreal · Apr 1, 2020 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

I mistakenly deleted the entire PATH variable under System Variables. So I tried to add a variable named PATH explicitly, to the System Variable. But now whenever I try to add multiple PATHs, each PATH overwrites the previous one.

Screenshot 1

As you can see, instead of opening the list of paths, it just gives the option of one path. So I tried to append a PATH variable using command line.

setx path "D:\Softwares\MongoDB\bin" /m

Screenshot 2

It still overwrites the previous path. As shown, the Java path(from Screenshot 1) got overwritten by the MongoDB path.

How do I resolve this issue ? How do I add multiple paths to the PATH variable ?

P.S - I use Windows 10 (64 bit).

Answer

Gicheha Kingori picture Gicheha Kingori · Nov 5, 2020

You can add each of the PATH values you require and separate them with semi-colons

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