XYplorer Beta Club

Hi all

We have a pretty weird setup here in our company, with quite a few windows environment variables involved. I faced a problem yesterday when I had to create windows shortcuts (.lnk) using variables I set on the command line with setx. The shortcuts were only working when I restarted XYplorer - or used windows explorer.

To reproduce my struggle, you can create a variable and a shortcut and see how it works:

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  SETX XYPLOREREXE "<path to your exe>"

• Create a shortcut that opens anything
• Edit the shortcut, replace the command by

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  %XYPLOREREXE%

It would be great to have a command to reload all environment variables. Maybe there is one, I didn't find anything.

Cheers

André

If you did a forum search prior to your post you might have found this topic, where the issue was discussed previously:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18439#p156284

I did, but not properly apparently.

That's sad news. I actually thought this would be an easy thing to do. My favourite keyboard launcher Keypirinha can do this, on demand of course.

http://keypirinha.com/index.html or http://keypirinha.com/packages/env.html

Cheers

André

Well if the main issue is lnk files, in theory as a workaround you should be able to write a script to read the enviro variables from the registry, read the shortcut target, and manually resolve (ie. replacelist) the variables and run/goto the target via PFA which should be seamless from your point of view, once setup.