# Cannot start ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch/129779>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 27, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch/129779 "2018-04-27T07:21:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-elasticsearch/129779/10 "2018-05-17T07:53:50Z")

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Thanks Tom, I had the same problem after updating to Java 8 r171. I had the same path in my system environment variables, but found java.exe in my windows folder. So I simply deleted C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath from my PATH and elasticsearch fires up now.

Annoyingly I arrived at this situation because I didn't have a recent enough version of Java for elastic search initially!

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