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

Open a CMD window, and enter:

echo %JAVA_HOME%

Verify the result is indeed the path entered your JAVA_HOME variable, i.e. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_74.

In my case, a space was slipped in, that was not visible in the Envrironment Variables window.