Installing Android Studio, does not point to a valid JVM installation error

Question

I just downloaded the Android Studio. While trying to run it, I had to modify the environment variable and add

JAVA_HOME

and

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Answer 1

Using c:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_73/ instead of C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_73 as JAVA_HOME variable solved the problem for me. Android studio now launches without problems.