Environment Variables are responsible for storing information about the OS’s environment. Different apps and programs require different configurations, and Windows is responsible for ensuring each has ...

The system path has been part of Microsoft operating systems since the earliest days of MS-DOS. This environment variable lives on in Windows 10 as a way to tell the system where to look when you try ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...