Rapid Environment Editor
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Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes an easy to use GUI and replaces the small and inconvenient Windows edit box.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Multiple languages
- Command line interface
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Support environment variables
- No registration required
- Variables
Tags
- system-utilities
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What is Rapid Environment Editor?
Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes an easy to use GUI and replaces the small and inconvenient Windows edit box. RapidEE 8.x supports Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 & Windows 10 (including 64-bit versions). If you still use Windows NT or 2000, then use version 6.1. For Windows 9x or ME use version 2.1.
Features
- Editable tree: Show environment variables and values as an editable tree.
- Portable mode: RapidEE doesn't require installation and could be run as a "portable application".
- Error checking: Automatically checking for invalid pathnames and filenames
- Multilanguage interface: RapidEE is translated into a number of languages, and the language can be changed on the fly.
- Variable inspector: Inspector shows miscellaneous information about variables: name, type, value, short file name in the 8.3 naming convention for each long file name and vice versa.
- Silent Installation: RapidEE supports silent installation mode which is useful for automating this process.
- Command line: RapidEE can accept a number of command line parameters to modify the system and user environment variables.
- No typing: You don't need to type long pathnames. Just choose a path using the File Explorer tree.
Rapid Environment Editor information
Developed by
Oleg Danilov Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
7 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Rapid Environment Editor is a great tool for being able to get to the Windows environment and add, change, delete or update environment variables, both the system and user settings. The place that I have found it of most use is when I run a lot of developer apps on a Windows computer, e.g. SQL Server & IIS. If you don't have a lot of compact directory paths, and use the default path names, you can run out of room for the path, and the applications don't work or function well. REE allows you to check the path for errors and fix them. If you put a wrong path in, it lets you know. It has context items to shorten (all 8.3 short-names) or return a shortened path to full extensions. Also variable expansion and cleanup of paths are also supported. I've also found REE useful in fixing QuickTime paths and variables issues. Variables are flagged as read-only or updateable and the program allows either strings or expandable strings as data types.
This app is one of the first I put on any windows box.
The path validation feature is a lifesaver
While the standard Windows Environment variable editor is a great example of a very bad UX (OK, finally, in the year 2017 Windows 10 has improved it a bit), Rapid Environment Editor has very good UX and even though it can manage any environment variable, both system and user, it excels in editing of path-type variables, which it displays separated, one path per line, allows adding of a new path value using standard Browse for Folder/Open file dialogs, checks and highlights invalid paths and more.
I'm always amazed with how the default Windows Environmental Variables Editor looks like. By that I mean that it looks like bad application from early '90s. And here Rapid Environment Editor is an awesome alternative. It is one of the tools I always choose to install first right after getting fresh Windows installation. It is super user-friendly and very useful - especially for programmers like me but also all other people that like to have things automated on thieir PC (i.e. using different kind of scripts, SDKs, etc.). After I've shown it to my colleagues everybody liked it very much as well.
Thanks to the author for making his effort to create that one! Great job!