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 To overcome the 1024-char limit see [[http://superuser.com/questions/387619/overcoming-the-1024-character-limit-with-setx|this post on Superuser.com]]. To overcome the 1024-char limit see [[http://superuser.com/questions/387619/overcoming-the-1024-character-limit-with-setx|this post on Superuser.com]].
  
 +Print the content of the ''%PATH%'' variable using Powershell - type ''$env:PATH''
  
 ===== Command line use ===== ===== Command line use =====
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-{{tag> Windoze Windows7 Environment_variable command_line}}+===== Backups =====
  
 +There are various ways to back up the user parts of Windows using command line tools. One of the native ways is to use [[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy|robocopy]]. That comes with various options 
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 +Some links to helpful pages:
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 +  * [[https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-quickly-back-up-just-your-data-in-windows-10-with-robocopys-multi-threaded-feature/|techrepublic - win 10 backup]]
 +  * [[https://datahamster.com/2018/03/30/using-robocopy-to-create-a-windows-backup/|data hamster]]
 +  * [[https://superuser.com/questions/314503/what-does-robocopy-mean-by-tweaked-lonely-and-extra/445137#445137]]
 +  * [[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40744335/how-do-i-force-robocopy-to-overwrite-files#40750265]]
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 +====== Having fun with M$ software ======
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 +here's my personal, completely subjective list of reasons why I think some of Microsoft's products are inefficient and painful to use.  
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 +  * MS Outlook - Decreasing the quote level is not possible - see: [[https://superuser.com/questions/224138/breaking-the-outlook-2010-e-mail-blue-quote-line-for-inline-responses#257518|this SuperUser thread]]. An email application that requires more than 15 seconds of search in an email application to simply decrease the quote levels?? I guess no surprises if MS Word is used as email editor... Hilariously, someone had to wrote an add-in to fix that functionality. A quote from the [[https://superuser.com/questions/224138/breaking-the-outlook-2010-e-mail-blue-quote-line-for-inline-responses#257518|this SuperUser thread]]: //As far as I'm aware, though, there is no way to deal with this problem unless you install an addin to do it, because this is essentially caused by a bug in Microsoft Word's conversion of documents to HTML (which needs to happen before you send an Outlook HTML e-mail).//m(