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

You need 1.7 JDK installed on your system. Add a system variable with:

• name: ANDROID_STUDIO_JDK

• path: your JDK path (for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21)

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