Hadoop on Windows - “Error JAVA_HOME is incorrectly set.”

Question

I\'m trying to get Hadoop running \'Local Mode\' on my Windows machine. I\'ve been using this guide: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/single_node_setup.html

When

Answer 1

 set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\

Above configuration was throwing same error as yours. I updated above with below in hadoop-env.cmd which is infact SFN

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\

This allowed me to change/have different java version than that of system.