Android SDK and AVD Manager will not run

Question

I installed the Android SDK but I cannot use it because the AVD and SDK Managers do not run. When I try to open either one of them, a command prompt window pops up for about

Answer 1

I had this problem with a fresh install of 64 bit win 7 pro, using and a fresh install of the 64 bit JDK.

Kenton Price's solution in this post fixed me up, and now it all works perfectly.

Android SDK installation doesn't find JDK

for some reason the (originally linux developed) ADK on my system needed JAVA_HOME defined with linux style forward slashes instead of windows style backslashes.