Can't launch Android Studio

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anairinac picture anairinac · Jul 12, 2013 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

I installed succesfully Android Studio on Windows 7 64bit, but it fails at launching. The following screenshots illustrate what happens.

Trying to launch Android Studio After previous error dialog

I read the answer here but still have not found the solution.

I've done the following things:

  • Set environmental variables JDK_HOME, ANDROID_STUDIO_JDK and JAVA_HOME to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_17\"
  • Set them to "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_17"
  • Download msvcr100d.dll and placed it on "C:\Windows\System32\" and "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\"
  • Reinstalled Android Studio

Still having the same issue. Can't see where the problem is. How can I solve this?

Answer

anairinac picture anairinac · Jul 12, 2013

Just found the solution.

I tried to launch Android Studio from the Start menu, which provoked that issue. So I tried to launch from its main directory and it worked. The shortcut target path was wrong.

Shortcut target path Before: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\bin\studio64.exe

Real executable path: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-studio\studio.exe

The studio.exe and studio64.exe inside bin folder doesn't work, but the one in android-studio seems to work perfectly. Just change the shortcut's target to that path and you're ready to launch it properly from the Start Menu.

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