Windows rehash path

Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Changing any variable in one batch session wil not affect any other batch session. Improve this answer. Magoo Magoo I can't understand well from the instructions.

You will need to close command prompt then reopen again. Type below. Takeo Nishioka Takeo Nishioka 10 10 bronze badges. The answer above is very close, its missing a step and an update. Kelly Davis Kelly Davis 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. I have not tried that trick in 7. Psycogeek - This is what I used. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The current PATH is updated to the registry values. I use ConEmu for my consoles and it runs this batch file on each new console to refresh the PATH so a reboot isn't necessary.

Improve this answer. Dave Dave 81 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Dave, may you say step-by-step, what you do, that new ConEmu console run with this batch file?

Where did you put in this code? Shannon Wagner Shannon Wagner 1, 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. I'll have to test this. I'd tried opening a new command shell, but hadn't closed the first yet I think. Also, which variable are you changing - the system path or the user path? I am nearly certain that the behavior will be different for each they get refreshed based on different triggers.

No luck here. This doesn't actually work. It will load the old value of the path variable. Show 1 more comment. Richard Woodruff Richard Woodruff 1. Add a new environment variable, call it something random. Remember to restart cmd. Documentation Help Center Documentation. It compares the timestamps for loaded functions against their timestamps on disk. It clears loaded functions if the files on disk are newer. Use rehash with no arguments only when you run a program file that updates another program file, and the calling file needs to use the updated version of the second file before the calling file has finished running.

Run rehash toolbox when you change, add, or remove files in matlabroot during a session.