IntelliJ - Can't start - “JAVA_HOME does not point to a valid JVM installation”

Question

For every other StackOverflow question that\'s been asked about this, here, here, and here, I\'ve followed all the steps to resolve this issue, and none have worked.

Answer 1

The problem will almost certainly be with the quotation marks around your JAVA_HOME path. Remove those and see if it works. If not, then I would recommend only putting your JDK installations under the root and with no spaces in them. I tend to put them in C:\JDK\1.8.0_65, etc. It makes referencing them far easier and you don't have to worry about quotation marks to protect spaces like you do with "Program Files".