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I had installed Android Studio few months back. It was working fine till yesterday. Windows made some automatic update. Then, I started getting an error if I try to start Android Studio:

Config path'C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-studio\config' is invalid.
If you have modified the 'idea.config.path' property please make sure it is correct,
otherwise please re-install the IDE.

I searched on Stack Overflow and found some suggestions which had helped others - enter link description here

But this is not helping me. In my copy of the file C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio\bin\idea.properties, the lines

 #idea.config.path=${user.home}/.AndroidStudioPreview/config
 #idea.system.path=${user.home}/.AndroidStudioPreview/system

were missing. (I have copied these here from the other link with answers).

I have tried

  • Uninstall the installation and reinstall it
  • Running Android Studio as administrator
  • Manually opening the idea.properties file as administrator, adding the 2 lines for config and system, then saving file and restarting Android Studio.

But the same error persists. Can anyone help me to resolve this?

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I uninstalled once more. Then, again ran the installation with "run as administrator" privilege. After this, if I start Android studio with "run as administrator" privilege, then it starts up. If I run it normally (non-administrator) it still runs into the same error.

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