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How do you make and set a environment variable?

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I am not sure what you mean by 'make' an environment variable.

One option to set env varialbes is to make entries into the registry
directly.
For user-specific env variables: HKEY_CURRENT_US ER\Environment
System-wide env variables:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACH INE\SYSTEM\Curr entControlSet\C ontrol\Session
Manager\Environ ment

For Visual Studio .NET 2005 (Whidbey): Environment.Set EnvironmentVari able()

You might also want to use SetEnvironmentV ariable() Win32 API (thru
P/Invoke)
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