# Issue starting Elasticsearch on windows
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039 "2016-01-25T16:11:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Ij888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ij888)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/1 "2016-01-25T16:11:54Z")
elasticsearch cmd closes rapidly on double-clicking `elasticsearch.bat`. How can I please stop this and make it work as outlined in the elasticsearch docs?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/2 "2016-01-25T16:14:27Z")
Please provide additional details. Is any error shown? Is there anything in the logs? What does your configuration look like?
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### Author:  [@Ij888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ij888)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/3 "2016-01-25T16:15:55Z")
Hi thanks for responding. There is no error shown, the cmd window flashes for about a third of a second and closes
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### Author:  [@Ij888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ij888)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/4 "2016-01-25T17:24:24Z")
Windows10, Java 1.8 u71, Elasticsearch 2.1.1
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/5 "2016-01-26T01:54:21Z")
You should really call the ES batch file from within a CMD window, not double clicking it.
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### Author:  [@Ij888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ij888)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/6 "2016-01-26T18:16:09Z")
I did try to call ES from cmd but got the screenshot above! Made certain my Java\_Home path set correctly but issue persists
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### Author:  [@Dan\_Burns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Burns)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/7 "2016-01-26T19:33:11Z")
Having the same issue, and Elasticsearch worked a few days ago, but now I'm getting the same above error.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/8 "2016-01-26T22:05:11Z")
Try `.\elasticsearch.bat`, or `./elasticsearch.bat`, I dunno which works with Windows.
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### Author:  [@Ij888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ij888)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/9 "2016-01-27T08:17:48Z")
Does files with the .bat filename need be run in cmd? I would think one just runs `elasticsearch` provided you are in the elasticsearch bin directory.
###update
Any updates, please??
###LatestUpdate
Completely cleared and reset my environment variables. On downloading and running Elasticsearch 2.2.0 everything ran beautifully, so I compared the .bat files with that of Elasticsearch 2.1.1's to see if there was any differences- there was. But on running the ES.2.1.1 files, it worked.
I suppose my environment variables needed a bit of housekeeping
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-starting-elasticsearch-on-windows/40039/10 "2017-07-05T23:16:57Z")