Eclipse, adb, and ddms not detecting Android Emulator

Question

I wanted to try my hand at programming android devices, so I followed the directions from the android website, installed the sdk, the java sdk, and eclipse. My computer is

Answer 1

Best solution I found is this:

1. Open DDMS(Window->Open Perspective->DDMS)
2. In DDMS in the left side there is a Devices tab, a little below there is a list of items, choose little triangle called View Menu, under it find Reset adb and launch it.

After that I get my emulator detected.