How to export and import environment variables in windows?

Question

I found it is hard to keep my environment variables sync on different machines. I just want to export the settings from one computer and import to other ones.

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Answer 1

To export user variables, open a command prompt and use regedit with /e

Example :

regedit /e "%userprofile%\Desktop\my_user_env_variables.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment"

Answer 2

I would use the SET command from the command prompt to export all the variables, rather than just PATH as recommended above.

C:\> SET >> allvariables.txt

To import the variablies, one can use a simple loop:

C:\> for /F %A in (allvariables.txt) do SET %A