How to change the value of pre-existing permanent variable using batch?

Asked Dec 22 '16 at 08:13

Active Dec 22 '16 at 15:57

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Look at the code below! You will understand what I want:

@echo off
setx myname king
echo %myname%
setx myname Queen
echo %myname%

Output:

king
king  //Why did it not change?? whats wrong? and how to change?

I even tried it after deleting the varable by :

REG delete HKCU\Environment /F /V myname

But still the output don't change!!

edited Dec 22 '16 at 15:57

aschipfl

asked Dec 22 '16 at 08:13

Jim Kim.

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`Setx` doesn't affect the current environment but future ones. Use `set` AND `setx`. – Dec 22 '16 at 08:31
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Possible duplicate of [how do I retrieve a value after using setx?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24059311/how-do-i-retrieve-a-value-after-using-setx) – JosefZ Dec 22 '16 at 08:33
but still it fail to change!! – Jim Kim. Dec 22 '16 at 11:32
You aren't using `set` so it will never work. – Dec 22 '16 at 19:43

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