Java 8 - How to set JAVA_HOME on Windows10

In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to set JAVA_HOME on Windows10 operating system.

Note: Assuming Java8 installed on your local (Windows10) machine, if not, you can see our previous tutorials.

Set JAVA_HOME on Windows10 :

It will take several steps to create JAVA_HOME.

Search for Advanced System Settings in the Search box like below:

by selecting the above Advanced System Settings, you can see the below System Properties window.

Click on Environment Variables >

Click on New button under System variables session to create JAVA_HOME :

Enter variable name as “JAVA_HOME”, give variable value as your JDK path and click Ok.

Note: The variable value should till java home path, it doesn’t include \bin.

Now select the Path variable and click on the Edit button :

Now opens another window like below: This is a new widow introduced from Windows10.

Here click on the new button and add environment variable %JAVA_HOME%\bin like below.

Click on OK.

Open the command prompt and execute below commands:

Happy Learning 🙂

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Somsak Bootsritha February 19, 2018 at 2:27 am - Reply

I try it. But it’s not work for me. javac still unreconized
- chandrashekhar February 19, 2018 at 3:08 am - Reply
  
  Hi Somsak,
  
  You can close your cmd prompt once and reopen then check once. If you all done well it works.
  Keep Learning 🙂
  
  Thanks,
  Chandra Shekhar G
Tom Smith April 27, 2018 at 10:33 am - Reply

Best tuition on the subject I could find.
Worked 100%
Thank you.
Neil Gaetano Lindberg July 27, 2019 at 9:40 pm - Reply

As a full stack guy that gets around on Linux all day I found this setup in Windblows very very taxing. I was just trying to run a local Android Emulator for React Native development, just to give my kids some games without ads…

After hours of failure I found this.

*bowing*

Thank you, sir,
Neil