setx command not recognized on Windows10

windows-10 setx
Plaul picture Plaul · Dec 27, 2015 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

I am installing software on a new laptop with (unfortunately) Windows 10 and the setx command is not recognized:

'setx' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I have Googled this, but can't find anything related to setx and Windows-10.

Do I need to do something specific to enable this command on Windows-10?

Answer

Plaul picture Plaul · Dec 27, 2015

The answer was given by svasa. It is strange but it worked. The strange thing is that it always was defined in my path, but as "%SystemRoot%\system32". Capitalizing system32 solved the problem. But this was an all new laptop, so I assume this wrong setting came from Microsoft?

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