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Java.exe: Error occurred during initialization of VM

Each time I try to launch java.exe, in this case java.exe -version, I get this output:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

Here is a screenshot of my problem:

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I searched on Google for a solution but nothing works...

Solution

  • Make sure your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to fully qualified path of the directory that contains bin/java.exe