Could not find or load main class

Question

I have Windows 7, installed jdk1.7.0 and its supporting jre7.
My problem is compilation part works perfectly, but while running the Java program I get this error saying:

Answer 1

I was having a similar issue with my very first java program.

I was issuing this command

java HelloWorld.class

Which resulted in the same error.

Turns out you need to exclude the .class

java HelloWorld