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Asked: 2026-05-14T20:13:28+00:00

I am trying to get Eclipse v3.5 (Galileo) to re-run on my computer – I

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I am trying to get Eclipse v3.5 (Galileo) to re-run on my computer – I have run it before with no problems, but now I keep getting this error:

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
C:\eclipse\jre\javaw.exe
javaw.exe in your current PATH

I’ve just done a fresh install of both the JDK and the SDK.

I have Windows 7 (x64).

What’s up with this? How do I fix it?

I can’t run any of the ipconfig / tracert / or ping.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Eclipse will by default try to launch with the default “java.exe” (the first one referenced by your PATH)

    Three things to remember:

    • “Installing” a JRE or a JDK can be as simple as unzipping or copying it from another computer: there is no special installation steps, and you can have as many different JVM versions (1.4, 5.0, 6.0…) as you want, “installed” (copied) almost anywhere on your disk.
    • I would recommend to always run Eclipse with the lastest JRE possible (to benefit from the latest hotspot evolutions).
      You can:

    • The JVM you will reference within your Eclipse session is not always the one used for launching Eclipse because:
      • You only need a JRE to launch Eclipse, but once Eclipse launched, you should register a JDK for your projects (especially for Java sources and debugging purposes, also in theory for compilation but Eclipse has its own Java compiler)
        Note: You could register just a JRE within Eclipse because it is enough to run your program, but again a JDK will allow for more operations.
      • Even though the default registered Java in Eclipse is the one used to launch the session, you can want to register an older SDK (including a non-Sun one) in order to run/debug your programs with a JRE similar to the one which will actually be used in production.

    Installed JREs

    June 2012, jmbertucci comments:

    I’m running Windows 7 64-bit and I had the 32-bit JRE installed.
    I downloaded Eclipse 64-bit which looks for a 64-bit JRE.
    Because I didn’t have the 64-bit JRE it threw the error, which makes sense.

    I went to the Java manual install page (which was not as directly accessible as you’d like) and installed the 64-bit version. See “Java Downloads for All Operating Systems“.
    That was all I needed.

    April 2016: Steve Mayne adds in the comments:

    I had to edit the eclipse.ini file to reference the correct Java path –
    Eclipse doesn’t use the environment PATH at all when there is a value in eclipse.ini.

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