# Issue with installing elasticsearch in windows 8.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 11, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-installing-elasticsearch-in-windows-8-1/55160 "2016-07-11T07:02:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Mehran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mehran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehran)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-installing-elasticsearch-in-windows-8-1/55160/3 "2016-07-11T12:57:02Z")
excuse me because I didn't fill the data completely ... the version of elasticsearch is 5.0.0-alpha4 and the error that I mentioned to was exact error that I got and I'm sure that I have set the PATH value correctly but now another error is appearing ... Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for 2097152KB object heap I have tried [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-occurred-during-initialization-of-vm-could-not-reserve-enough-space-for-1048576kb-object-heap-elasticsearch/33999/1)link but it didn't worked for me .... My machine configuration : wndows 8.1 64bit 4 GB ram --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-installing-elasticsearch-in-windows-8-1/55160)._