Environment variable change made in a batch is not reflecting immediately

Question

I am trying to set the following environment variable , and invoking a .exe file . This particular takes the value of the variable and creates metadata files.

But the value set while running the batch is only reflect if i run it the second time . Is there a way to reflect the environment variable change immediately?

Following is the sample

setx -m USER_HOME "D:\\user_home"

start "" C:\\sample.exe

In this case, you probably only need `set`, not `setx`. – Harry Johnston Jul 09 '15 at 00:22 — Harry Johnston, Jul 09 '15 at 00:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '15 at 09:06

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Restarting explorer.exe might be enough. Try taskkill /f /im explorer.exe and start it again using explorer.exe after setting your variable.

answered Jul 08 '15 at 09:06

MichaelS

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No, that won't affect the running instance of cmd.exe. – Harry Johnston Jul 09 '15 at 00:21

Environment variable change made in a batch is not reflecting immediately

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