Would you like to learn how to create an environment variable using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to create an environment variable on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
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Tutorial Powershell – Creating an Environment variable
As an Administrator, start a new POWERSHELL command-line prompt.
Create an environment variable.
In our example, we created a persistent environment variable named: VAR_TEST.
Change the environment variable name and its content to reflect your needs.
Verify the existence of the environment variable.
Here is the output:
Congratulations! You are able to create an environment variable using Powershell.