Eclipse cannot find javaw.exe

up vote0down votefavorite	When i start eclipse i get this problem: The location of javaw.exe in my computer is C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin. I have tried change the path environment variable then i get different error like: java eclipse jvm shareimprove this question asked Oct 18 '13 at 15:35 Mickey 56116
	So, where is jvm.dll? – Ingo Oct 18 '13 at 15:38 3   You are most likely trying to use a 32-bit Eclipse with a 64-bit JRE. – nitind Oct 18 '13 at 17:48 1   Or the other way round. – texnic Jan 28 '14 at 19:54 add a comment

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up vote3down vote	Try starting your eclipse.ini (in the same directory with eclipse.exe) with the two lines: -vm C:/Program Files/Java/jre7/bin/javaw.exe shareimprove this answer answered Oct 18 '13 at 15:41 Ed Staub 10k13163
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Following the comment of @nitind, I've checked the bit depth of my Eclipse and of the installed Java. It turned out that, apparently, during the recent update the Java installer has deleted the old 64 bit installation (so program files/java/jre7/ became empty. After downloading the 64 bit version manually (from http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp), I'm now able to run Eclipse again. shareimprove this answer answered Jan 28 '14 at 19:57 texnic 1,14821035

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up vote0down vote	JAVA_HOME should be left as it was before, eg c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0, and %JAVA_HOME%\bin should be added to the PATH variable, so all required files are available in the environment. That should be all you need to run Eclipse. If you'd like to specify a diferent vm, take a look athttp://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini shareimprove this answer answered Oct 18 '13 at 15:41 Morfic 5,37111127
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If you updated your JRE as did I, eclipse will send the same error report. To correct this issue I went into the eclipse path (i.e) path\eclipse\jee-mars\eclipse and updated the "eclipse configuration-setting" file. Open the file in some form of editior, I used notepad++. Update the version of JRE on this line..."C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_91\bin" save the file and start eclipse. shareimprove this answer answered Jun 14 at 1:25 JayLav 205

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Please map correctly java path in environment varibales like below. it will be resolved. Path=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16\bin; For sure it will be resolved shareimprove this answer