Is there a way to set the environment path programmatically in C++ on Windows?

Question

Is there a way to set the global windows path environment variable programmatically (C++)?

As far as I can see, putenv sets it only for the current application.

Answer 1

If you want to do it through the registry, you might want to look at the source code of this program.

Microsoft also provides a small command line utility called setx with its resource toolkits, which will let you do this. By the way, the regular set command just lets you define local environment variables I think.