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I installed a program that cleared my %PATH% (probably this NSIS bug).
I don't want to run System Restore because of other changes I made that I suspect will be reverted (for example, my backup configuration).
Is there a way to recover the PATH from a system restore point or any other good way?
yakatz
Posted 2013-07-07T16:29:32.427
Reputation: 175
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See key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet00х\Control\Session Manager\Environment
Path
command line, LastKnownGood:
REG Query "HKLM\SYSTEM\Select" /v LastKnownGood
get all ControlSet00х hive list:
REG Query "HKLM\SYSTEM\Select"
get Path at ControlSet002:
REG Query "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Control\Session Manager\Environment" /v Path
STTR
Posted 2013-07-07T16:29:32.427
Reputation: 6 180
Perfect, it was in ControlSet002. I need to learn more about how Last Known Good Configuration works. – yakatz – 2013-07-07T21:41:28.383
@yakatz http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/08/05/last-known-good.aspx
– STTR – 2013-07-07T23:50:21.3330
One way to do it, which I did just now, is to download a program called Process Hacker and examine the environment of a program that was running before whatever overwrote your PATH. Of course, that only works if you're still running a program that was open before your PATH got overwritten, but I was, so I was able to salvage it.
Kef Schecter
Posted 2013-07-07T16:29:32.427
Reputation: 121
Pull it out of your mentioned backup? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-07-07T16:30:21.703
@techie007 Unfortunately, one of the reasons I had to reconfigure the backup was because it was not backing up the registry. – yakatz – 2013-07-07T21:36:34.950