Enviromental Variable Issue

[Rose]

Hello,

This message appears when opening various programs such as Device Manager and Advanced System Settings, "The System Could not find the environment option that was entered". This is the path of the System Variables,

%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live; C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86_64; C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86; %SystemRoot%\system 32; %SystemRoot%; %SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem; %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.01; C:\Program Files ( x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static

These work properly in safe mode. Know how to fix this?

 

[Rose]

Thank you for taking a look AliceKlaar. That was a typo. No restore points either.

%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86_64;C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static

 

[mraikes]

Your path is identical to mine, except for this:

%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live

Does it exist?

Having said that, this error isn't necessarily a path problem. What about the other System Variables? ComSpec, TEMP, WINDIR, etc?

 

[B Trevathan]

Double check the environment variables? Make sure their set right and make sure they are all there, for example:

%WINDIR% = C:\Windows
or in some places like the registry it might be configured as:
windir REG_EXPAND_SZ %SystemRoot%


In normal mode and in safe mode from a command prompt try one of these commands:

SET
or
Help SET

If those commands don't work you may have to check the environments in the registry like:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

Compare the environments to another computers environments or with this list:

http://windows7tips.com/environment-variables-windows-vista-7.html

Have you checked for malware?

Only 3 posts in 2 years? Is that a record?

One was the introduction and one was about changing car oil I guess I shouldn't have replied.