Help Please

[Salmon Trout]

I didn't copy and paste, I just typed it

Why?

[BC_Programmer]

javac is not a folder.

The Windows %path% environment variable should by default consist of this:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem

If all that has been nuked by a Java install (this is known to happen sometimes, by the way) you have problems, as has been noted. Typically, this is caused by an installer over-writing the path variable when it should be appending to it. I believe this can happen with systems where the previous path string was over a certain number of characters (some installers barf at 512, others at 2048)

I'd be more inclined to think they nuked it themselves by editing the path.

[Squashman]

javac is not a folder.

I'd be more inclined to think they nuked it themselves by editing the path.

I agree on both comments.

[tkoch96]

By default it did consist of that, but I changed it to what it currently is because that is what websites told me I needed to do in order to make the command "javac" work

[Squashman]

By default it did consist of that, but I changed it to what it currently is because that is what websites told me I needed to do in order to make the command "javac" work

I do not know what website you were following but I posted the link to the official documentation and it says ADD to the path, not replace. Nor does it tell you to add JAVAC to the path. The path ends at the BIN folder.

[tkoch96]

okay so what should i do? how do i get my default path back?

[BC_Programmer]

okay so what should i do? how do i get my default path back?

Whatever you had before, you destroyed when you deleted it. You can set it to what Salmon Trout provides, which is the default, and then add the path to the java bin folder.

[tkoch96]

Thank you everyone, I figured it out