Thread: BUG #17471: COMSPEC error
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 17471 Logged by: Van Avetisyan Email address: van.1994@hotmail.com PostgreSQL version: 14.2 Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Description: I've tried to install multiple versions of PostgreSQL: 10.20, 11.15, 14.2... But all of them fails at the beginning with the following error: "There has been an error. The environment variable ComSpec does not seem to point to the cmd.exe or there is a trailing semicolon present. Please fix this variable and restart installation." On my system variables I have: Variable name: ComSpec VAriable value: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe If I copy this route to windows folder it opens the cmd... If I search on CMD: "%COMSPEC%" /C "echo test ok" it return test ok If I search on CMD: echo %COMSPEC% it returns C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe Basically I've tried everything, even change the fsutil 8dot3name... command from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15287207/problems-installing-postgresql-9-2 But anything is working.