Eclipse crashes at startup; Exit code=13

Question

I am trying to work with Eclipse Helios on my x64 machine (Im pretty sure now that this problem could occur with any eclipse) but it just doesn\'t cooperate.
When I tr

Answer 1

I faced the same problem

Turned out my Java version in the PATH had been updated to 1.8

Once I changed this back to 1.7, my Eclipse started without issues