Most of my Environment variables disappear when I change one of them
Hey This is a weird problem and I haven't been able to find anyone with a similar problem. When I install software, I find that most of my environment variables simply disappear, including the PATH variable and the WINDIR variable. This causes lots of things to not work on my system, since a lot of Windows shortcuts appear to rely on WINDIR. However, when I restart my computer, they all come back. I thought this was a problem with Windows Installer, but then I found if I manually changed an environment variable such as the PATH, the as soon as I press 'OK', they are all gone again until I restart. Has anyone heard of this issue before? I will post below the contents of my environment variables before and after they disappear. This is a really annoying issue. I have starred out a few of the values of the variables as they contain information on my domain. I will also note that I have starred the value of LOGONSERVER, but the value is different before and after the problem. Before disappearing: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData APPDATA=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Roaming asl.log=Destination=file BDSCOMMONDIR=C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\5.0 CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME=NAGILUM ComSpec=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe CYGWIN=binmode tty ntsec FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\garnold JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23 LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local LOGONSERVER=**** NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4 OS=Windows_NT Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\bin;C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\5.0\Bpl;C:\Program Files (x86)\CollabNet\Subversion Client;C:\Perl64\site\bin;C:\Perl64\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\WiX3.5;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\SVN_Code\fme_clean\enterprise\Tools\maven\bin;C:\apps\FME\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\apps\FME_6488\;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\ PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 PROCESSOR_REVISION=1a05 ProgramData=C:\ProgramData ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86) ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files PROMPT=$P$G PSModulePath=C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\ PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public QTJAVA=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip RoxioCentral=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\Roxio Central36\ SESSIONNAME=Console SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows TEMP=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local\Temp TMP=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local\Temp ULTRAMON_LANGDIR=C:\Program Files\UltraMon\Resources\en USERDNSDOMAIN=**** USERDOMAIN=**** USERNAME=garnold USERPROFILE=C:\Users\garnold VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\ windir=C:\Windows WIX=C:\Wix3.5\ After disappearing: ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData APPDATA=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Roaming asl.log=Destination=file BDSCOMMONDIR=C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\5.0 CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME=NAGILUM COMSPEC=C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe HOMEDRIVE=C: HOMEPATH=\Users\garnold LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local LOGONSERVER=**** PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS;.WS;.MSC ProgramData=C:\ProgramData ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86) ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files PROMPT=$P$G PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public SESSIONNAME=Console SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows TEMP=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local\Temp TMP=C:\Users\garnold\AppData\Local\Temp ULTRAMON_LANGDIR=C:\Program Files\UltraMon\Resources\en USERDNSDOMAIN=**** USERDOMAIN=***** USERNAME=garnold USERPROFILE=C:\Users\garnold I would appreciate any insight into this issue. Thanks!
January 24th, 2011 5:11pm

I have a simalar problem. We have 3 system variables that have to be set for a certian program. Every once in a while I have a user lose these variables. The last one lost some recent dispaly settings suppect restore point. I am trying something out in that now once I input the variables I make a new restore point. Maybe that will make them stick.
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June 20th, 2011 1:10pm

I have a simalar problem. We have 3 system variables that have to be set for a certian program. Every once in a while I have a user lose these variables. The last one lost some recent dispaly settings suppect restore point. I am trying something out in that now once I input the variables I make a new restore point. Maybe that will make them stick.
June 20th, 2011 1:10pm

I have a simalar problem. We have 3 system variables that have to be set for a certian program. Every once in a while I have a user lose these variables. The last one lost some recent dispaly settings suppect restore point. I am trying something out in that now once I input the variables I make a new restore point. Maybe that will make them stick.
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June 20th, 2011 1:10pm

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