setx command not recognized on Windows10

Question

I am installing software on a new laptop with (unfortunately) Windows 10 and the setx command is not recognized:

'setx' is not recognized as an internal or external command

I have Googled this, but can't find anything related to setx and Windows-10.

Do I need to do something specific to enable this command on Windows-10?

Answer 1

The answer was given by svasa. It is strange but it worked. The strange thing is that it always was defined in my path, but as "%SystemRoot%\system32". Capitalizing system32 solved the problem. But this was an all new laptop, so I assume this wrong setting came from Microsoft?

Answer 2

In my case I had to run my batch file as Administrator or from an Administrator command prompt.

Answer 3

In some cases, it might be because you are in powershell or some other terminal, not in the "command prompt" terminal (remember to open it with admin)