How did developers set environment variables??

[Кирилл Фролов]

Why when i run notepad++ from win+r menu it opens, but when i try to run notepad++ from command line “not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file” is displayed?

[Alan Kilborn]

@Кирилл-Фролов

Do some reading about Windows’ PATH environment variable…

[Кирилл Фролов]

@Alan-Kilborn I can’t find anything in my PATH variable that contains notepad word.
Why when i run notepad++ from win+r menu it opens, but not when run from command line.

[Alan Kilborn]

@Кирилл-Фролов said in How did developers set environment variables??:

Why when i run notepad++ from win+r menu it opens, but not when run from command line

Because they use 2 different mechanisms for locating the program.

I can’t find anything in my PATH variable that contains notepad

Which explains why it can’t be found when running from the command line.

Add the folder of notepad++.exe to the PATH environment variable, or specify the complete path to notepad++.exe on the command line.