7.9.3 Elasticsearch Installation Error

I am getting this error tryin to install Elasticsearch 7.9.3 on my Windows system. Please suggest.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/logging/log4j/core/config/properties/PropertiesConfigurationFactory
at org.Elasticsearch.cli.CommandLoggingConfigurator.configureLoggingWithoutConfig(CommandLoggingConfigurator.java:40)
at org.Elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:87)
at org.Elasticsearch.common.settings.KeyStoreCli.main(KeyStoreCli.java:43)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationFactory
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:606)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:168)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
... 3 more
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/logging/log4j/core/config/properties/PropertiesConfigurationFactory
at org.Elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:90)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.properties.PropertiesConfigurationFactory
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:606)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:168)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
... 1 more

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