IntelliJ IDEA “The selected directory is not a valid home for JDK”

Question

I just installed IntelliJ IDEA and I\'m trying to set it up. I\'ve gotten to the part where I need to select my home directory for my JDK.

I tried navigating to my J

Answer 1

For Windows, apparently the JDK has to be under C:\Program Files.

This does not work:

C:\dev\Java\jdk1.8.0_191     

This works:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_191     

(I'm using IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2018.2.4.)