Question: Windows - no powershell reboot

[cmather]

In windows, I can see the WM_SETTINGCHANGE means the env variables are picked up by new processes without requiring a system reboot. But, have you found a way to get the currently running process (e.g. powershell, vscode) to pick up the changes?

It seems that you have to restart the program to get it to see the change. Is there some way to call out to the "set" program perhaps?

[coolaj86]

Child processes cannot change the environment of parent processes.

That's a security feature that's the same across Mac, Linux, and Windows.

I don't know what the PowerShell equivalent of source is, but it may have something like that for a process to update itself.