# Elasticsearch not running on windows 10
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 18, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425 "2018-05-18T06:59:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@raman2.0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raman2.0)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/1 "2018-05-18T06:59:04Z")
Elasticsearch not running, showing:
C:\Users\Applicate\Downloads\elasticsearch\elasticsearch-6.2.4\>bin\elasticsearch.bat
[2018-05-18T06:53:52,513][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [LAPTOP-12HF0A7H] initializing ...
[2018-05-18T06:53:52,700][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [LAPTOP-12HF0A7H] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to create node environment
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:125) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:112) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:85) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to create node environment
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:267) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:246) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:323) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
... 6 more
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\data\nodes\0\_state\node-3.st
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.implDelete(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Unknown Source) ~[?:1.8.0\_66]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.cleanupOldFiles(MetaDataStateFormat.java:230) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.write(MetaDataStateFormat.java:162) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.loadOrCreateNodeMetaData(NodeEnvironment.java:363) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:246) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:264) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:246) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:323) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:121) ~[elasticsearch-6.2.4.jar:6.2.4]
... 6 more
C:\Users\Applicate\Downloads\elasticsearch\elasticsearch-6.2.4\>
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### Author:  [@shanec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanec)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/2 "2018-05-18T07:15:20Z")
> [@raman2.0](#):
>
> Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\data\nodes\0\_state\node-3.st
Looks like the user that you're running Elasticsearch as doesn't have access to write to this location. You could change the user it's running as to one that does or change the Elasticsearch data directory.
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### Author:  [@raman2.0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raman2.0)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/3 "2018-05-18T07:25:40Z")
I do not understand. i just installed Elasticsearch with the same user. And I had unziped the folder in Download directory.
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### Author:  [@shanec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanec)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/4 "2018-05-18T07:38:30Z")
Maybe you did an administrator install and now you're running as not an administrator?
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### Author:  [@raman2.0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raman2.0)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/6 "2018-05-18T07:59:33Z")
Yes, I was making that mistake. It worked now.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-running-on-windows-10/132425/7 "2018-06-15T07:59:38Z")
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