Enviroment Variables

[Nabeel Khan]

Hi Everyone,

I have wrote a routine in VB to set the enviroment variables using Windows API's . It is running fine and it is adding evironment variables, but the problems is that it takes me to reboot or log off to make the actual settings takes place..

Is there any code or technique by which i can avoid rebooting or logging off ?


Regards

Nabeel

[Clearcode]

The problem here is that every thread takes a local copy of the environment variables at startup and doesn't neccesarily update them until restarted.

Well written programs should refresh their environment variables if you send them a WM_WININICHANGE message though - try sending this to HWND_BROADCAST to see if that has any affect.

HTH,
Duncan

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Ex. Datis: Duncan Jones
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