apm not responding on windows, even though its listed in path

[alilland]

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Description

I added have added all of the following folders to my PATH, atom responds in my command line, but not apm, I cannot download or install packages in atom

C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\bin
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.23.3\resources\cli
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.23.2\resources\cli\

Steps to Reproduce

after adding it, I can run where apm and get it to respond, but it wont respond on its own.

C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom>where apm
C:\Windows\System32\apm.cmd
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\bin\apm
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\bin\apm.cmd
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.23.3\resources\cli\apm.cmd
C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.23.2\resources\cli\apm.cmd

C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom>

Expected behavior: [What you expect to happen]
Expected APM to work

Actual behavior: [What actually happens]
When not in the folder and I run apm -v it responds with

The system cannot find the path specified.

Reproduces how often: [What percentage of the time does it reproduce?]
100%

Versions

if I am inside the bin directory apm responds....

C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\bin>apm -v
apm  1.18.12
npm  3.10.10
node 6.9.5 x64
atom 1.23.3
python
git 2.8.0.windows.1
visual studio 2015

C:\Users\ALilland\AppData\Local\atom\bin>

You can get this information from copy and pasting the output of atom --version and apm --version from the command line. Also, please include the OS and what version of the OS you're running.

Additional Information

several versions ago (like sometime in 2016) atom was working with apm, but I moved over to dev on mac, after returning to windows its been nothing but headaches

I attempted using a %USERPROFILE% and that did not work either, in fact, when I did atom no longer worked either. At this time, atom responds from the CLI

I am using windows 10 Pro, version 1709, OS Build 16299.125

[rsese]

Hmmm I wonder if there's an issue with your PATH? What do you get in cmd when you run PATH? Also, I'm not sure what the C:\Windows\System32\apm.cmd is, did apm.cd from your Atom install get copied over there somehow?

[alilland]

low and behold that fixed it, I deleted the C:\Windows\System32\apm.cmd path, not sure when or how it got there

[rsese]

Since C:\Windows\System32\ is likely pretty early in your path it looks like that apm.cd in there was messing things up. Not sure how that got there, but I'm glad we have things sorted out.