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Windows environment variables

Windows's machine-wide and per-user variables, PATH among them, stored in the registry and copied into a process's environment block when the process is created.

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A running Windows process keeps the PATH it inherited at creation

A fresh terminal resolves ffmpeg while the IDE on the same machine says the tool is missing. The difference is the environment block each process got when it was created, and Windows sends no update to a process already running.

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