About Rapid Environment Editor

Rapid Environment Editor (RapidEE) is an environment variables editor. It includes easy to use GUI and replaces small and inconvenient Windows edit box. RapidEE 3.x supports Windows NT, 2000, XP & Vista. If you still use Windows 9x or ME, then use version 2.1.

Features

Editable tree Show environment variables and values as an editable tree. Click the thumbnail to view the full size image	No typing You don't need to type long pathnames. Just choose path using File Explorer tree
Portable mode RapidEE doesn't require installation and could be run as a "portable application". View details.	Easy values manipulation RapidEE supports drag'n'drop for reordering of variable values
Error checking Automatically checking for invalid pathnames and filenames	Backup Environment variables can be backed up to the registry file (.reg)
Multilanguage interface RapidEE is translated into number of languages (English, Russian, Japanese, French, Polish, German, Italian, Latvian, Slovak, Greek, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch), and the language can be changed on the fly.	Skins Skins allow you to change the look and feel of RapidEE
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.	Multiuser support If you have an administrative privileges then you can edit environment variables for any user on your computer.

About Windows environment

Environment variables are specially named aliases for basic system properties. Here is the Microsoft's definition:

Environment variables are strings that contain information such as drive, path, or file name. They control the behavior of various programs. For example, the TEMP environment variable specifies the location in which programs place temporary files.

RapidEE could be useful to edit variables such as PATH, CLASSPATH (Java developers, it's for you), INCLUDE or LIB (respect to C++ developers) with comfort. Moreover you will never make a mistake, because RapidEE checks your input and highlights incorrect paths or filenames.

About portable mode

By default RapidEE uses registry to store settings. Though RapidEE could be run as a portable application using command line parameters:

RapidEE /cd or RapidEE_CD.bat

CD mode - read program settings from the .ini file. These settings will not be saved.

RapidEE /usb or RapidEE_USB.bat

USB mode - read and write program settings from/to the .ini file

Portable mode is ideal to run from the CD-ROM or USB flash drive on different computers.