Could not find main class HelloWorld

Question

I installed Java 1.7.0 in the following folder C:\\Program Files\\Java. My operating system is Windows XP(Version 2002) with Service pack 3.

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Answer 1

You are not setting a classpath that includes your compiled class! java can't find any classes if you don't tell it where to look.

java -cp [compiler outpur dir] HelloWorld

Incidentally you do not need to set CLASSPATH the way you have done.