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

I faced the same issue.. My mistake was I was taking the path till /bin/ and putting ; at last.

Correct is - JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_92

no /bin/ no ';'

Answer 2

Had the same issues opening PHPSTORM from command line. Solution was to download jdk version 8 x86(32bit). Edit settings in Environment Variables by setting JAVA_HOME path in user variables for... to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_221

Answer 3

The java and javac executables are using the PATH environment variable, while intelliJ is using JAVA_HOME variable. Remove the additional quotation marks in your JAVA_HOME value.

It might shows that your path to the jdk installation directory is hard coded in the PATH, rather then using %JAVA_HOME%.