Android Studio installation on Windows 7 fails, no JDK found

Question

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,

Answer 1

If you have a 64 bit windows OS, pointing the JAVA_HOME system variable to

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_21

Will work when

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21

fails to work.