Environment Variable is too large on Windows 10

Question

I know this is strange and I have spent almost 3 days searching for the solution online without getting a useful one. So I have decided to come here.

I have recentl

Answer 1

There are few ways to clean up your path variable. The easiest is to use Rapid Environment Editor. This free utility will,

1. Remove the duplicate paths (right click > Cleanup Paths)
2. Remove non-existent folders (shown in red which you need to manually delete)
3. Replace long paths with short paths (right click > long to short path).

I do above steps in order and use 3rd step only for longest paths until Path variable size is in control again.

If you want to go more advanced, here's little C# tool that you can modify to whatever other logic you want to implement.