I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1.
Now I wanted to set an environment variable for my new installation of Apache Maven.
Each time I created the user variable, things were fine. However, I also need to create the system variable where I will need to append the bin directory to the variable that I already create in the user variable to be "path".
Now, each time I do this, I get an error that says "This environment variable is too large". As a result of this, I am unable to create the path.
I have attached an image of this error.
Best Answer
When the PATH environment variable gets overloaded with too many values it reaches a point where you cannot add values any more. Trying the following should solve your problem.
Solution 1:
If this still doesn't work then try to copy some part of the PATH environment variable already existing values to the 'NEWPATH' and then append the 'NEWPATH'.
Solution 2:
Check the value of the PATH environment variable if you can group and shorten the paths. For example,
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\102\Tools\Binn;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\102\DTS\Bin;
can be combined to
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server;
In this way, you can build more space into your fixed length PATH variable and finally adjust your bin directory location into PATH.