extending PATH on Windows?

[pyotr filipivich]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> on Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:57:13
-0500 typed in comp.lang.python  the following:
>On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:24:00 +0000 (UTC), Ulli Horlacher
><framstag at rus.uni-stuttgart.de> declaimed the following:
>
>>Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> >I have 
>>> >"Python 2.7.11 (v2.7.11:6d1b6a68f775, Dec  5 2015, 20:32:19) [MSC
>>> >v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32"
>>> >and there is no "win_add2path.py"
>>> >
>>> C:\Python_x64\Python27\Tools\scripts\win_add2path.py
>>
>>Ok, It is here in C:\Python27\Tools\scripts\win_add2path.py
>>but windows "Search programs and files" was not able to find it.
>
>	Windows (especially 7) search function is highly crippled. There is
>some command sequence that will open it up to looking at other file types
>and locations.
>
>http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-7-search-does-not-find-files-that-it/61b88d5e-7df7-4427-8a2e-82b801a4a746?auth=1


Thanks.  I've found it "simpler" to just open a command prompt, and
use DOS.
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