Create Windows Environment Variables with PowerShell

How to Setup a Environmental Variables

Create a persistent/permanent environmental variable for the current user only.

1. Open PowerShell as an administrator

2. Enter the following command:
   
   [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Your_Environment_Variable_Here", "your_value_here", "User")
   

   • Replace 'Your_Environment_Variable_Here' with the appropriate variable name
     e.g.; CONNECTED_ACU_API_PASSWORD, CONNECTED_ACU_API_VENDOR_KEY, CONNECTED_ACU_API_USER_KEY)

   • Replace 'your_value_here' with the respective values for the variable.

 How to Display / Echo the Value of Environmental Variables

You can check if the environment variable was created with the echo command.

      echo $env:Your_Environment_Variable_Here

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable Syntax

Scope of Environment Variable

• User Scope: Applies to the current user only.

• Machine Scope: Applies to all users on the machine.

• Process Scope: Applies only to the current PowerShell process

Examples

# Setting a user-level persistent environment variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'User')

# Setting a machine-level persistent environment variable
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PersistentVar', 'Persistent Value', 'Machine')