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Android studio does not run in Windows 8. I download it, install, but when i press on icon to run it - nothing happens. I try to run with admin. I try to set compatibility with Windows 7.

Ken Y-N
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    I'm sure this question will be appearing a million and one times in the next couple of weeks, but [this seems to be the answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/16579521/1270789). You need to set the `JDK_HOME` environment variable to point to your Java installation. – Ken Y-N May 16 '13 at 06:48
  • possible duplicate of [Android Studio install on Windows 7 fails, no JDK found?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16574189/android-studio-install-on-windows-7-fails-no-jdk-found) – laalto May 16 '13 at 07:20
  • My problem was caused because the character '&' was in the path (in my Windows username). – Daniel Imms May 16 '13 at 08:35

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For debugging it is very helpful to start C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\bin\studio.bat.

That points out what is wrong. In my case I had to update my JDK_HOME environment variable to point to the currient installation.

From the android documentation (this part was published after I wrote my answer):

Known issue: On some Windows systems, the launcher script does not find where Java is installed. If you encounter this problem, you need to set an environment variable indicating the correct location.

Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Properties. Then open Advanced tab > Environment Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for example C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21.

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rekire
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  • As for me problem was that the variable JAVA_HOME was not set too. Control Panel - System - Advanced system settings - Environment variables add JAVA_HOME with value c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_02\ for example (if yoour machine runs under win). – Johnny Doe May 16 '13 at 07:02
  • Yeah indeet I missed to add this :) – rekire May 16 '13 at 07:05
  • Optionally you can add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to PATH string - this allows you to run commands from \Java\jdkxxx\bin\ directly without specifying full path. "java -version" for example – Johnny Doe May 16 '13 at 07:08
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    Google should have added an error message. This problem (which should not be there in first place) is wasting time of millions of developers. – Hitesh Sahu Jan 26 '16 at 14:33
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The launcher is not finding your JDK setup. Make sure you have correctly set one of these environment variables: ANDROID_STUDIO_JDK, JDK_HOME, JAVA_HOME

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    Thank you for answer. I was facing same issue for Ubuntu. I configured JDK_HOME by following command: export JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-i386 – Dhiraj Powar Nov 02 '15 at 05:10