I downloaded Android Studio and attempted to launch the program.
This is running on Windows 7 64-bit with Java 1.7. During the installation my Java 1.7 is detected,
I got the problem that the installation stopped by "$(^name) has stopped working" error. I have installed Java SE Development kit already, also set both SDK_HOME and JAVA_HOME that point to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\"
My laptop installed with Windows 7 64 bits
So I tried to install the 32 bit version of Java SE Developement kit, set my JAVA_HOME to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_21", restart and the installation worked OK.