Setting JAVA HOME through Command Line in Windows

Hi all,
If you are working on some old windows machines and want to set JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables follow the steps.

Start --> Run-->CMD .. In the command prompt first type


echo %JAVA_HOME% , if the JAVA_HOME variable is already set the path will be printed.
eg: c:/Program Files/java1.6

else %JAVA_HOME% will be printed.

You can set JAVA_HOME by typing

SET JAVA_HOME = c:/Program Files/Java (The path where your JRE or JDK is installed)

Then you can set the bin path by typing

SET PATH = %PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin what you are doing here is appending the existing set PATH's with JAVA_HOME/bin.

You can also directly set the path to the JAVA Bin directory instead of the above steps like
SET PATH = %PATH%;c:/Program Files/JAVA/bin

Then if you want to view the set path you can type echo %PATH% ..