A JRE or JDK must be available in order to run Eclipse. No JVM was found after searching the following locations

Question

Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:

A Java Runt

Answer 1

Its simple. JDK bin directory or JRE bin directory should be in path variable Example : Java Installed directory: Assume your java installed in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144' directory Now you can find bin directory in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin'

Navigate to user's environment variable

Control Panel --> User Accounts --> User Accounts --> Change my environment variables

In popup click Path under User variables for section Click Edit... button and another popup will appear

Click New button and enter C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin

Click OK button and again OK button in Environment variables popup.

Now you can open your eclipse without error