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Standalone toolbar and environment variables - PsychoMark - 04-29-2013
Hi,
I'm using the Standalone True Launch Bar and have noticed an issue when the system's environment variables change. It appears the tlbHost process doesn't update it's copy of the environment, so this old set is passed along to applications started by it. Since my development environment uses the PATH variable to load various packages, every time there's a change it will result in a "file not found" error. Starting from the Start Menu or restarting tlbHost fixes it.
It's not a major issue, since it only happens for me a few times a year. It usually takes a bit for me to realize this is the cause though.
As far as I could tell, there isn't an easy way to reload the environment except for reading the system and user registries and rewriting the environment variables yourself, so again, it's just a nice-to-have as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks for the continuing updates by the way, TLB is still the first thing I install after Windows!