How to set the path in Windows.
The path is now managed by Windows XP and not the autoexec.bat or autoexec.nt
files. To change the system environment variables, follow the below steps.
1. From the desktop, right click My Computer and click properties.
2. In the System Properties window, click on the Advanced tab.
3. In the Advanced section, click the Environment Variables button.
4. Finally, in the Environment Variables window (as shown below), highlight the
Path variable in the Systems Variable section and click the Edit button. Add
or modify the path lines with the paths you wish the computer to access.
Each different directory is separated with a semicolon as shown below.
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Progra
m Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin;
Open Command Window Here
This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file
system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe)
pointing at the selected folder.
Dowload CmdHere.exe
This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file
system folders. This gives users a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe)
pointing at the selected folder. After installation, right click on the folder you
would like to have a quick launch command window for and select "Open Command
Window Here."
How to get The Java SE Development Kit (JDK)
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Get Eclipse
To download Eclipse, go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/and select your
operating system. You will be using Eclipse version 3.7.1 for this course because it
is the only known version of Eclipse that supports all the Java 1.5 semantics.
Where to Put Eclipse on Your Machine
Eclipse does not come with an installer, so this confuses many people. Basically,
you download it, unzip it into a directory, and then run the executable in that
directory to start Eclipse. There are some small bugs in Ant within Eclipse that
manifest themselves if it is installed in a directory with spaces in its name, so
instead of installing it into a direcory such as:
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Desktop\eclipse
or
C:\Program Files\eclipse
use:
C:\eclipse