jdk-8u101-windows-i586

Question

installed jdk 86 bit for windows vista however the command prompt does not locate it and getting info like "'javac' is not recognized as an internal or external command...."
-what to do then?

Answer 1

You have to setup java environment variable.

1.Right click on My Pc
2.Select properties
3.Open Advance system setting
4.Click on 'Environment variables'
5.Find 'PATH', select it & then click on edit.
6.Then open the jdk installed location(Default location: c->Program file(x86)->java->jdk->bin) copy the path
7.Now click on new(In environment variable->path) and paste the copied location
8.Now copy the path (c-pf(x86)-java-jre->bin)
9.again click on new and copy the path
10.Click OK. Done

You also can search on google "How to setup java environment variables"

Answer 2

you directly access java/javac in the command prompt by writting its full path eg c:\java\jre\bin\javac.exe name.java

Answer 3

hi