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How to use user or system environment variables with java

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question by Bejaan | Moderate

User environment variable:
PATH:C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib;C:\ant\apache-ant-1.6.5\bin;

Works well, however, I don't understand how one reasons where to put them between the user or the system. What are the general guidelines ?

Use user environment variables to....
Use system environment variables to....

I would have guesed the PATH to be system but it is user???

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Re: How to use user or system environment variables with java

reply by Tejas

System environment variables can be viewed from Control Panel by choosing the System icon. These variables are always set no matter who logs on and they cannot be changed by any user but the administrator

User environmental variables
The user may add, delete or modify the environment variables in the User Environment Variables for User field. These variables take precedence over system environment variables. The user path is appended to the system path.

.. System environment variables are for all Users.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310519&sd=tech

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Re: How to use user or system environment variables with java

reply by Srirangan

As the system variables are not modifyable the user can add his modifiactions to
the user environmental variables.
The user variables take precedence over system environment variables

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