Note: Other answers don't specifically address Windows 10 - at least not yet - and they leave off important steps - like how to open the control panel - that changed since previous versions of Windows. Update: After seeing lots of comments about setting environment variables without admin in Windows 10, I think I have found a way. I was not admin and could use PowerShell. You can list all environment variables with: Get-ChildItem Env:. There are different ways to work with environment variables and certain quirks with them in PowerShell so consult the link for details. Old method no longer available in newer Windows 10 updates, use PowerShell or see other answers Go into Settings and click on System. Then on java path setting in windows 10 left side click About and select System info at the bottom. In the new Control Panel window that opens, click Advanced system settings on the left. Now in the new window that comes up, select Environment Variables. You can reach it with Win Break or by right-clicking the Start button. Or you can do it the hard way and find some other entry point to the old-style control panel, like the Network and Sharing Center or the Desktop folder. However, java path setting in windows 10 appears to retain the entire list of paths internally, so even though you can't see the entire list of paths from the prompt, it uses the entire list to find commands. The serach result are indeed the same. But clicking of the first result highlighted in your picture in current Windows 10 does nothing for non-admin accounts. This is the same bug, introduced by 1511 update as the one described in my answer. So no, it doesn't really work in general case. However, if you want to edit both system-wide and user-specific environment variables then most if not all of these answers are inapplicable in general case. In order to solve this problem i. On the left-hand side of that applet you will see a link that says Change my environment variables. If your user has administrator rights, you will be able to edit both sections of that dialog: user-specific environment variables upper section and system-wide environment variables lower section. If you don't have administrator rights, you will only be able to edit the upper section: your own user-specific environment variables. Unfortunately, Windows 10 November update version 1511 destroyed this functionality. The Change my environment variables link no longer works. It is there, but it is dead. So for the post-November version of Windows 10 the correct answer is: it is generally impossible to edit user-specific environment variables in version 1511 of Windows 10 from regular user accounts. Microsoft has destroyed Windows 10 with this update and Windows 10 is now unusable. An alternative workaround is to use PowerShell features as described here Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607 released August 2, 2016 finally fixed this bug. Steed: No, mine is ordinary current public version of Windows 10 Pro. Meanwhile, your version number indicates that you are running the original Windows 10. This is why you don't have this issue, since this issue, as I said in my answer above, was introduced by 1511 update specifically. If you update your Windows to the current version, you will observe the same problem. I don't know though why Windows Update is telling you that your version is up-to-date. As a simple workaround I have downloaded this nice tool: It is portable and requires no permissions to install, it is simple to use, and actually provides a better overview of the variables than the system dialogue anyway. If you are not afraid of the command line, you should check out the command setx. I quote from its description: Creates or modifies environment variables in the user or system environment. Can set variables based on arguments, regkeys or file input. Note that this command does not affect the current command shell's environment, only the environment of new processes, so you'll need to open a new command shell to see any changes. True, and I don't know how to do that, other than setting the variable to an empty value, which isn't really deleting it. On the other hand, it works from a regular account i. If I haven't missed it, none of the answers provided so far work from a non-admin account. Left Click Advanced system settings. At this point you can change the variables for the current user or the system.
