# Unable ro run Elasticsearch on windows 7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-ro-run-elasticsearch-on-windows-7/181285>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-ro-run-elasticsearch-on-windows-7/181285 "2019-05-16T00:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![oumayma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e5b9ba/32.png) [@oumayma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oumayma)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-ro-run-elasticsearch-on-windows-7/181285/1 "2019-05-16T00:15:13Z")

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Hi  
When I run the elasticsearch.bat I get this error :  
\java\jdk1.8.0\_162\bin\java.exe" -cp "!ES\_CLASSPATH!" "org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.TempDirectory"" ' était inattendu.

My java version is 1.8.0\_162 and I already modified my JAVA\_HOME path ..  
Please help ..

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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:** [June 13, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-ro-run-elasticsearch-on-windows-7/181285/2 "2019-06-13T00:15:14Z")

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