# Cannot start Elasticsearch on Windows 10

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch-on-windows-10/214738>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 12, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch-on-windows-10/214738 "2020-01-12T18:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![LearnElastics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a183cd/32.png) [@LearnElastics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LearnElastics)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch-on-windows-10/214738/1 "2020-01-12T18:03:07Z")

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Hi,

I installed elasticsearch 7.5.1 on windows 10 using msi installer and it does not start when i test using localhost:9200.

log file has this error:  
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.181-b13) for windows-amd64 JRE (1.8.0\_181-b13), built on Jul 7 2018 04:01:33 by "java\_re" with MS VC++ 10.0 (VS2010)  
Memory: 4k page, physical 16484100k(9020924k free), swap 25921284k(15882124k free)  
CommandLine flags: -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:ErrorFile=logs/hs\_err\_pid%p.log -XX:GCLogFileSize=67108864 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=data -XX:InitialHeapSize=2147483648 -XX:MaxHeapSize=2147483648 -XX:MaxNewSize=715829248 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=6 -XX:NewSize=715829248 -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=32 -XX:OldPLABSize=16 -XX:OldSize=1431654400 -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -XX:+PrintGC -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:-UseLargePagesIndividualAllocation -XX:+UseParNewGC  
Heap  
par new generation total 629120K, used 22369K [0x0000000080000000, 0x00000000aaaa0000, 0x00000000aaaa0000)  
eden space 559232K, 4% used [0x0000000080000000, 0x00000000815d8698, 0x00000000a2220000)  
from space 69888K, 0% used [0x00000000a2220000, 0x00000000a2220000, 0x00000000a6660000)  
to space 69888K, 0% used [0x00000000a6660000, 0x00000000a6660000, 0x00000000aaaa0000)  
concurrent mark-sweep generation total 1398144K, used 0K [0x00000000aaaa0000, 0x0000000100000000, 0x0000000100000000)  
Metaspace used 2178K, capacity 4480K, committed 4480K, reserved 1056768K  
class space used 245K, capacity 384K, committed 384K, reserved 1048576K

What to do to resolve this issue?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch-on-windows-10/214738/2 "2020-02-09T18:03:14Z")

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