Javac is not found

Question

I\'m running Windows 8 and I can not get javac to work.

I have set my PATH in environmental variables to

C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_17\\

Answer 1

Start off by opening a cmd.exe session, changing directory to the "program files" directory that has the javac.exe executable and running .\javac.exe.

If that doesn't work, reinstall java. If that works, odds are you will find (in doing that task) that you've installed a 64 bit javac.exe, or a slightly different release number of javac.exe, or in a different drive, etc. and selecting the right entry in your path will become child's play.

Only use the semicolon between directories in the PATH environment variable, and remember that in some systems, you need to log out and log back in before the new environment variable is accessible to all environments.