Windows 10: Multiple PATH environment variables

There's a package that I want to install and it says in order to install it, it needs to be added to the PATH. Upon checking my environment variables, I noticed there are three of them as shown:

https://preview.redd.it/xprgvditzx7...bp&s=657a8f7a4877da58c8255cd1bd20134fdd91b48e

I'm not sure if this is an issue. If it's not an issue I'm not sure which PATH to use. If this is an issue, how can I resolve this so there is only one PATH.

As can be seen the last one is the result of downloading Python directly from that website.

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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?

 

Accidentally deleted the path of environment variables

I accidentally deleted the path of system environment variables, instead of editing it and adding a new one, in my Windows 10 Dell Laptop. I lost all the default variables that were there. How do I restore the previous variables? Please help

 

Cannot edit long Path Environment variable

I was having a problem with Apple's SyncServer.exe (part of iTunes). It was choking on the length of my system PATH environment variable (2388 bytes), so I temporarily hacked it below 2047 bytes, and it worked OK.

BUT I couldn't use Control panel/System/Advanced Systems Settings to restore it to what it was previously as that complained that the variable was too long.

To quote MSDN: The maximum size of a user-defined environment variable is 32,767 characters. (omitted) Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, there is no technical limitation on the size of the environment block.

Luckily I was able to restore my PATH by using regedit to change the variable Path stored at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment which doesn't appear to suffer from the problem of the control panel.

Is there any chance this will be fixed (**** ****).

Dave