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I just bought a Win 7 PC, installed jdk1.6 and Netbeans, NB works fine, but when I did "java -version" in a command prompt, it can't find java, why ? How to fix it ?

Edit : I thought the installation process should set the path correctly, how come it didn't ?

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The JDK installer for windows does not update the path environment variable. The installation docs describe how to do this. See item #4 on that page.

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Thanks, got it. – Frank Aug 12 '10 at 3:08
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The path to java isn't in your system PATH variable.

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The executable probably isn't in your path. What does 'echo %PATH%' say?

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C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\Wind‌​owsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\ – Frank Aug 11 '10 at 18:07
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