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While I am installing IDEs from JetBrains, in installation options I can "add launchers dir to the PATH", what does it mean?

Cannot understand what does it mean exactly.

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This option allows adding <ide install dir>/bin to your system %PATH% so that you can start the launcher from any folder by just entering idea (webstorm, etc) in cmd console

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  • but without this option i have link/launcher(or how it calls on desktop) and entering it from this link(without opening ide/bin/intellij.exe to start IDE) –  Sep 07 '19 at 17:59
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    desktop shortcuts allow launching application from desktop; adding launcher to %PATH% allows running it from command line - these are different things – lena Sep 07 '19 at 20:57
  • @lena so should we add launchers dir to the PATH and what are the pros and cons? say, I decide not to add now during installation and leave that option checkbox unticked, how do you add this to PATH in future? – clover Sep 30 '20 at 09:12
  • in the way you usually do this on Windows - by editing system environment variables:) – lena Oct 02 '20 at 13:40