GetEnvironmentVariable example will return the expanded paths

[jborean93]

When using [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path", "User"), the returned value will have an already expanded path. The line should get the raw registry value that does not have an expanded string to ensure that when the path is prepended with the WSL path, it still contains the expand placeholders.

For example, the default User path value is actually %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;. The line above will return C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps and will replace the unexpanded string when we set it in the next command.

What this should be is;

$userenv = (Get-Item -Path HKCU:\Environment).GetValue("PATH", $null, "DoNotExpandEnvironmentNames")
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", $userenv + "C:\Users\Administrator\Ubuntu", "User")