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 the same issue on my windows-8 64 bit machine. Narrowed the problem down to a particular statement for /f "delims=" %%a in ('"%~dps0\find_java.exe" -s') do set java_exe=%%a in the find_java.bat file.

For some reason the statement in the parentheses was not being executed as a command. I tried out all the suggested solutions above but none of them worked. In the end found that this particular statement worked fine on another Windows 8 64 bit machine so there was some problem with my Windows 8 installation. I checked my OS system files and found some of them were corrupt, so I did a repair of my Windows 8 installation and after that everything worked fine.