Windows 10: How to create permanent environment variable but only for a single .exe file

To resolve an issue on my high-resolution screen when using a particular board game app, I have been correctly advised to use a workaround KIVY_METRICS_FONTSCALE=2 instruction in the CMD screen, which enlarges fonts. Its a GitHub developer's app and he will release permanent adjustments in due course.


For now, he has helpfully suggested that, instead of always having to resolve the issue by keying in 'set KIVY_... ' then starting his app, both within the CMD screen every time, I could add the KIVY variable to myUser Environmental Variables not the System Variables. That way, I could just click to start the app in the normal way, with having to use the CMD screen steps each time.


What exactly should I type in the Advanced Settings EV NEW dialogue boxes to establish the variable, so that it only affects this particular app? Reason: there may be other apps in my PC using Kivy stuff which do not require this font scaling adjustment and a global variation might wrongly interfere with them.


Thank you!

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System environment variable won't stick

Running Win10 Home on an Acer Spin 3, 64bit, i7cpu. I try to add a path to the system environment variables by:

1. Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced tab > Environment variables

2. The "Environment Variables" window opens.
3. In the "System Variables" pane I select "Path" and click the EDIT button.
4. A list of the current system paths is displayed.
5. I click the NEW button, browse to the path I want to add which is "C:\Python36-32" and click OK. The path "C:\Python36-32" is added to the list of current system paths.
6. I click OK and am returned to the "Environment Variables" window.
7. I click the "X" at the top right to close the "Environment Variables" window.

Now if I click the "Environment Variables" button again (end of step-1) and repeat steps 2-4, the new path I added in step-5 is gone. IOW, adding a new path won't stick.

What am I doing wrong?

 

Searching environment variable in list

I'm using a command that gives me a list of environment variables. When searching in the list, I want to find all environment variables with the word
EXTERNAL; using the following command all that is occurring is all the environment variables are being listed instead of those environment variables with the word
EXTERNAL ?

findstr /c "EXTERNAL"

 

Environment Variable

Hi,

I accidentally deleted the entire environment variables on my windows 10 PC. Resetting the Pc is creating a lot of problems. The reset page would only load 47% and prompted me with a message "undoing changes." Is there a way someone can suggest to resolve
this problem?