Powershell Add System Variable

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Run PowerShell as an administrator (to get the necessary registry access permissions) then call out to the .Net framework to set it:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("MyTestVariable", "MyTestValue", "Machine")

NB. it won’t take effect within the same process, you’ll have to make a new PowerShell process to see it.

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