title: How do you avoid over-populating the PATH Environment Variable in Windows?
body: <p>I would like to know what are the approaches that you use to manage the executables in your system. For example I have almost everything accessible through the command line, but now I come to the limit of the path string, so i can't add any more dir.</p>
  
  <p>So what do you recommend?
  A long time ago, I tried to use softLinks of the executables in a Dir that belonged to the path, but that approach didn't work.
  Throw the "executable only" to a known Dir,has the problems that almost any application require a set of files, so this also is bad.
  Throw the executable and all his files to a known Dir, mmm this will work, but the possibility to get a conflict in the name of the files is very very high.
  Create a HardLink? i don't know. What do you think?</p>