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Given

  • Multiple JDKs intalled in my Windows machine.. say JDK X, JDK Y,.. etc
  • Environment variables JAVA_HOME & PATH are pointing to JDK X.

Action

  • java -version at cmd, it printed JDK Y at console.

Expectation

  • want java -version to print JDK X

What am I missing, so that it should print JDK X ?

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  • Check if JAVA_HOME & PATH are pointing to correct location of JDK X. Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 14:18
  • @kann Yes they are. Double checked this. Also, a mismatch here, i believe, would not had let me recognize java command at cmd Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 14:20
  • Try where java on the command line to see which executable it picks. I think some common installs put a java.exe in C:\Windows\System32 for some reason ... Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 15:18
  • @JoachimSauer It returned me two location 1)C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath 2) exe at Java Home path location Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 15:24
  • @JoachimSauer location C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath has 3 exe in it java, javaw, javaws Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 15:25
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