Windows Installer Completely Whacks the PATH

[Ary Borenszweig]

news.digitalmars.com wrote:
> Not a big complaint, since I'm loving D for all the right reasons, but the 
> one-click Windows installer replaces the PATH with one including only the 
> location of DMD and DMC. Which hosed a lot of applications on my system till 
> I thought to look there for the problem.
> 
> A once rather long PATH value was replaced by:
> 
> C:\D\dmd\windows\bin;C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\D\dm\bin

I don't have much time to investigate the problem, but the nsis 
installer uses the EnvVarUpdate extension. I found this:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2483473

but there isn't a solution there. If someone finds a solution the 
installer should be changed to that.