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Eclipse finds Java from CMD prompt but not from desktop click

I have multiple versions of Java installed on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit system. In order to install
Eclipse Java 2018-12
I have had to install the Java 11 JDK from the Oracle website. Despite setting JAVA_HOME and updating PATH in environment variables the only way to install and also run this version of Eclipse was to open a command prompt and
C:>set path=c:\program files\java\jdk11.0.1\bin
and then run Eclipse installer or installed instance.
The problem persists if I reboot my computer.
I want to be able to start eclipse by simply clicking on the desktop icon link.
The error I get when I try to run eclipse from the desktop link is:
Version 1.7.0_79 of the JVM is not suitable for this product. Version 1.8 out greater is required.
My C:\Program Files\Java\
contains folders
jdk1.0.7_79
jdk-11.0.1
jre7
I think I need all of these because I have some programs which I think retire java 7 so I don't think uninstalling java 7 is an option and don't think java 11 would replace it, or should I just get rid of java 7, is that what's causing the problem despite environment variables set correctly?
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks.

Add c:\program files\java\jdk11.0.1\bin to your Windows Environment PATH

The system was running C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe
I fixed it by adding the Java 11 bin directory at the beginning of the Path environment variable instead of at the end of the string, separated by a semicolon.

First set JAVA_HOME then update path in environmental, refer screenshots attached.

Can't install Eclipse - "Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine" on Mac

I'm trying to install Eclipse, but I can't get the installer to start. It fails with
"Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine"
How can I resolve this?
Note: I'm on Mac.

Edit the file /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist
There is a comment for use a particular JVM:
<key>Eclipse</key>
<array>
<!-- to use a specific Java version (instead of the platform's default) uncomment one of the following options,
or add a VM found via $/usr/libexec/java_home -V -->
<string>-vm</string><string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk8u192-b12/Contents/Home/jre/</string>
<string>-keyring</string>
<string>~/.eclipse_keyring</string>
</array>

It took me some time to figure this out as well. The main takeaway was eclipse does not support SDK Version 14 (as of eclipse 2020-03). That was not completely obvious to me.
Install a supported version (I used Homebrew to install SDK V8 🍺):
brew cask install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
If this is the only Java Version you have installed you should be fine and Eclipse should open up. If that is not the case and you have another Java Version installed. You have to tell Eclipse which Version of Java it should be using (see Step 2).
Tell Eclipse which Version to use by editing the /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist file as described by Juan Ignacio Barisich and Brad Parks. That being the version you installed in step 1.
nano /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist
# or
open /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Info.plist
<key>Eclipse</key>
<array>
<string>-keyring</string>
<string>~/.eclipse_keyring</string>
<string>-vm</string>
<string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/</string>
</array>
Disclaimer: Please bare in mind that those were the steps I took to get eclipse running again. Because I'm nowhere qualified to give a precise answer about this please take a look at the comments in case I got something wrong.
Edit: See Christian Fries answer who pointed out that all java versions 8 to 13 are supported by eclipse.

For me, I had to edit the eclipse-inst.ini file located here:
Eclipse Installer.app/Contents/Eclipse/eclipse-inst.ini
and add the path to my local java VM at the very top of the .ini file, which is here:
-vm
/Users/bparks/jdk/jdk1.8.0_162_x64/bin/java
If the Eclipse Installer.app file is in a DMG, right click on it, and copy it, then paste it into another folder. Then right click on that app file, and choose "Show Package Contents", to get into the files inside the application.
If you've already got Eclipse installed, and find it's throwing the same error, you could try a similar approach by editing the following file for Eclipse:
/Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse/eclipse.ini
On mac, you can get the full path you'd need to your java exe by running the following in a terminal, which will copy the path to your clipboard.
$ echo $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/bin/java | pbcopy

Note: The error "Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine" also exists with Eclipse 2020-03 (under some situations, see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=561273) and it is not required to use Java 8 (with Eclipse 2020-03).
For the impatient:
You can run Eclipse or the Eclipse Installer with a given VM without changing eclipse.ini by starting it via a command line:
Open Terminal an run:
open PATHTOECLIPSEINSTALLER/Eclipse\ Installer.app --args -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/NAMEOFJDK/Contents/Home/bin
where PATHTOECLIPSEINSTALLER is the path of the folder where Eclipse Installer is located and NAMEOFJDK is the name of the folder with the JDK (11, 12, 13).
For example:
open Downloads/Eclipse\ Installer.app --args -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.2.jdk/Contents/Home/bin
In the installer you may select the VM used by Eclipse. Use a compatible VM here and the installer will modify the eclipse.ini for you.
Explanation TL;DR
To clarify this issue:
Eclipse - say Eclipse 2020-03 - runs with Java 11, Java 12, Java 13, but does not run with Java 14. It fails with the message "Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine". This happens for the installer and for Eclipse itself.
You can download Eclipse without the installer from here: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/
Explanation:
On macOS, if you start a freshly installed Eclipse, it will use the default JVM. The default JVM is obtained by running /usr/libexec/java_home.
This program /usr/libexec/java_home will find the installed JDK with the highest version as default. That is, if you have JDK 14 installed and run Eclipse 2020-03, you will see this error.
Solution
Summarising some other answers here, there are three options:
Once you have removed JDK 14 from /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ the error will be gone.
If you like to have JDK 14 installed, start the installer with a different JDK via the command line open Path-to-Eclipse-Installer/Eclipse\ Installer.app --args -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/NAMEOFJDK/Contents/Home/bin
You may edit the eclipse.ini (as suggested in other answers) to use a specific JVM.

Referring to Marseille Joseph
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=1102885&goto=1823113&#msg_num_13
This worked for me!
Their solution didn't require uninstalling jdk14 or to editing the eclipse.ini file. Instead, do this:
cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.jdk/Contents/MacOS/
sudo rm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.jdk/Contents/MacOS/libjli.dylib
sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-14.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/libjli.dylib libjli.dylib

I started facing the same problem in mac suddenly after updating to macOS Monterey, So I just did the following steps:
Then go to Contents/Eclipse/eclipse.ini file and open it with any text editor and you will see the following:
Add below line before -vmargs as shown in above image:
-vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_171.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
This below line will be different for all the users:
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_171.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
and you can just get this line copied to your clipboard using this command in terminal:
$ echo $(/usr/libexec/java_home)/bin/java | pbcopy
Similarly will be for STS:
Then go to Contents/Eclipse/SpringToolSuite4.ini as shown below and open with any text editor app.
You will see the following:
Just add the same line that you added for Eclipse in the above steps:

delete all java folder inside /Library/Java
then install a new jdk from
https://adoptopenjdk.net/
which will install at
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk
then try reinstalling eclipse a

I had the same problem in my mac. Here is my solution.
First: I've uninstall all the versions of jdk, because I've try a lot of options.
To do this, you need to go to Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
and delete all the folders.
Second: Install jdk 1.8 here is a link to download this version:
jdk 1.8
Third: Install eclipse 2020-03 and thats all.
If you want to use JDK 14, you need to follow this steps:
Open eclipse
Go to Help > Install new software
In the Install window copy the following link in Work with https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.15-P-builds/
Select the third option show in the picture below
Then, click "next" and finish the install
Now you have to change the options, go to Preferences (command + ,) > Java > Compiler and search the version 14. Before this step you need to install jdk 14 (link) Perhaps eclipse would suggest you to change to the correct JREs, for this you need to go to Java > Installed JREs and add the correct version. When you click add you need to choose he JRE type, in my case I use a MacOS X VM and Standard VM, then you have to choose the directory (/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachine/jdk-14/Contents/Home and click open you could give a JRE Name and finish eclipse will be restart and now you can use eclipse with java 14.
This works for me, I hope you have understood me.

Go to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
Delete all version except one in use.

Install jdk 8 from brew work for me. You can get the instruction on installing Jdk 8 from HomeBrew here How to install Java 8 on Mac

I met this problem with eclipse-java-2020-03-M2-macosx-cocoa-x86_64, and opendjdk11. The latest eclipse installer at the moment also complained same error.
After I switched back to openjdk8, everything goes well...

For Windows OS:
open eclipse.ini in the Eclipse program folder
add the below lines at the top of the file
-vm
path-to-java-bin\javaw.exe (for example: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.10\bin\javaw.exe)

I mounted eclipse dmg file and copied eclipse inside Applications. Then I tried to modify file Info.plist located inside Contents as below, but was getting that this file Info.plist is readonly error. I noticed that I already have read and write permission but still it was giving me that read only error. Then I moved the contents of Eclipse to some other local folder and then edited Info.plist, it did not give me readonly error.
<array>
<string>-vm</string><string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java</string>
<string>-keyring</string>
<string>~/.eclipse_keyring</string>
</array>
Finally I am able to open eclipse.

I have set all JDK / JRE environment variables correctlly but fails to install Eclipse. [duplicate]

I am trying to use Eclipse on a friends computer but we keep getting this when we run Eclipse
We have the environmental variable set as well.
Edit
it was working before he installed the black berry plug in.

The variable JAVA_HOME is not required by Eclipse. If your Java installation does not put the Java executables in the PATH, you should add those manually.
A faster way to have your Eclipse up and running consists in modifying the eclipse.ini and using the -vm option.
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini#-vm_value:_Windows_Example

I had the same problem. For me, I needed the JDK. So I had to install the JDK. It should match the build platform that is, 64bit vs. 32bit windows. After that, I removed, the -vm line from the eclipse.ini file (the suggested fix). It was giving me the "Can't create virtual machine" error. The current release of JDK is version, 7 whereas the Android Developers Toolkit version of eclipse is currently based on JDK 6. But it seems to work. Eclipse came up and is functional. Haven't actually written a program yet.

Go to eclipse folder (where eclipse is installed) and open eclipse.ini file in your editor and add the following code after openFile tag.
-vm C:\Program Files\JDK6\bin\javaw.exe
That's all.

I had a similar problem, since our Java and JDK is consistently updated by our service desk, including uninstalling old JDKs. They take care of the PATH for us, but then the JRE that Eclipse was used to "seeing" was gone. So, the thing that has worked best for me is to modify the shortcut's "target" from:
"C:\Program Files\Eclipse\Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers\eclipse.exe"
to
"C:\Program Files\Eclipse\Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers\eclipse.exe" -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\<jdkver>\jre\bin\javaw.exe"
That will point Eclipse toward to the JRE in the JDK you want it to use, and then you can update that shortcut when your JDK updates.
This is on Windows 64bit, obviously.

It can also happen on mismatch of JAVA and Eclipse bit version.
for eg:
If in your System java is 32 bit and you are trying to install Eclipse of 64 bit then the same situation might occur.
Because Eclipse will look Java in Program Files while at the same time Java may be present in Program Files (x86).
So in this case eclipse will not get java and throw the same error.

While installing eclipse, Jre missing :
I solved my error as follows:-
This error may comes if you have 2 program files folder in your system.
"Program files" &
"Program files x86".
Please install JDK&JRE in the "Program files" folder.
Hope your jre missing error get solved.

this works for me:
open eclipse.ini file in your editor and add the line: -vm C:\Program Files\JDK11\bin\javaw.exe
update system PATH with correct JDK path.

Java Error opening registry key

I get this error when I try to do anything with Java in command prompt:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment.3'
Error: could not find Java.dll
Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment
I did screw around with deleting Java directories and registry a few days ago. I restarted computer and java was still working fine, then i restarted it again today and now I get this error. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but that doesn't seem to work. I have the latest java JRE installed and the path set in the environment variables. Anyone have any clue how to fix this?

Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your Windows\System32 folder and if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64.
If you can't find them at these locations, try deleting them from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath.

You will find a folder named "Oracle" on ProgramData folder in your windows installed drive. Remove the folder. Hope it will work.
In my case my install drive is C and my path is C:\ProgramData\Oracle

I had a similar problem. I had installed JDK7 update 1 but couldn't use it (probably because I found a JRE6 that I deleted after installing JDK7). Uninstalling JDK7 was impossible. The solution was to add the JRE registry entries by hand.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment]
"CurrentVersion"="1.7"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.7.0_01]
"JavaHome"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7"
"RuntimeLib"="C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jre7\\bin\\client\\jvm.dll"
You'll have to adjust the above to your own directories and version.
If this doesn't help, there's still JavaRa https://singularlabs.com/software/javara/ .

Delete these 3 files present in your local at path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
java.exe
javaw.exe
javaws.exe
This solved the issue for me :)

Make sure you remove any java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your system.
if you have an x32 system (Win XP 32 bits) Windows\System32 folder
if you have an x64 system (Win 7 64 bits) also do the same under Windows\SysWOW64 folder

On Windows 10 I had just installed the JDK, and got these errors when checking the version. I had to delete all executable files starting with java (i.e. java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe) from C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath. And then, once deleted, re-run the JDK installer, restart my terminal program and java -v works.

There are 3 locations to check
Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.8.0_xxx\JavaHome
Java Control Panel- Java tab - View - Path
Environment Variables - Path ($env:Path)
All 3 have to align (if you have multiple entires just remove the wrong ones) - thats all

I had the same:
Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment
Clearing Windows\SysWOW64 doesn't help for Win7
In my case it installing JDK8 offline helped (from link)

I would have tagged this as a comment but cant (dont have the rep) just wanted to thank Tilman. I was trying to get PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge) to work to no avail.
At launch it would produce an error stating that it could not find JRE 1.6.0. I Have both 32 and 64 bit versions and they check out fine at the java website in their respective browsers.
Tried uninstalling/reinstalling and rebooting repeatedly as well as using JavaRa. No such luck, still no go.
I looked in the registry after reading this post and there was no ...\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\ key so I added each with their respective string values pointing to my x86 version (PDFsam is a 32bit program). This got past the first problem but an error popped up about amd64 libraries suggesting the machine wanted to run the 64bit version. So I changed the paths to the 64bit JRE and PDFsam now works.
FYI - I got here by searching for Java registry keys after I was unable to launch javaw.exe from command prompt (even after adding the requisite paths to system path), making the aforementioned changes solved this as well.

I got this kind of error whe nI had JDK 1.7 before and I installed JAVA JDK 1.8 and pointed my JAVA_HOME and PATH variables to JAVA 1.8 version. When I try to find the java version I got this error. I restarted my machine, and it works . It seems to be we have to restart the machine after modifying the environment variables.

In case a virus scanner (like McAfee) is running, try:
Disable virus scanner
Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Reinstall Java (from Java.com)
Re-enable virus scanner

Uninstall Java (via Control Panel / Programs and Features)
Install Java JRE 7 --> OFFLINE <--
Configure JAVA_HOME and Path = %JAVA_HOME%/bin;%PATH%

I have Windows 7. I got the same problem after installing: PyCharm.
I wasn't satisfied with PyCharm, so I decided to use Eclipse instead. This is when I discovered that things went wrong with my JDK. I used to have Java.9.x. So I decided to uninstall it and get the newer version (at my time it was Java.11.x. The same problem persisted.
I followed most of the steps mentioned above in the post like:
- Removing all java*.exe files,
- removing Java related entries from the registry.
- Cleaning-up all unnecessary Java folders. However nothing helped. I still had something in the system referring to a broken Java pathname.
What really brought remedy is the following:
- Uninstalled what ever version of JDK I had at the moment.
- Re-Installed the last JDK version I had before the problem took place
- Properly uninstall that version.
- Install whatever latest version of SDK. ..
That's it .. at this point everything returned to normal ... Except that Java.11.xx did not fix the system path automatically, I had to do it manually.

I followed multiple answers from above and got my issue resolved.
Issue:
Javac was on 13 from jdk but java was using 1.8 from jre so java threw incompatible runtime error
Fix:
Under Control Panel -> Programs: I uninstalled 1.8 (named Java 8 runtime) and DID NOT touch the other one (named Java (TM) SE Development Kit 13)
Deleted java.exe, javac.exe and javawc.exe files from:
a. C:\Windows\system32
b. C:\Windows\SysWOW64
c. C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath
The environment variable JDK_HOME was pointing to 13 but JAVA_HOME was pointing to 1.8 so i pointed JAVA_HOME to also use 13 which was C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1
There was a Path variable under both User variables and system variables sections.
For the one in user variables section, i added the string %JDK_HOME% - which translated automatically to the physical path.
For the one under system variables, I deleted the path C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath and added C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1\bin
All good now! Thanks to all the people who answered, you rock!

Make sure to delete java references from system32, SysWOW64, and delete javapath from ProgramData\Oracle\Java. It solves the issue

If you have "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" in your PATH, just make sure that the java bin path entries are present before this entry in your PATH.
I was facing the exact same issue, and I just moved the java jdk/jre bin path entries up in the list, above the oracle entry and it resolved my issue.

A JRE or JDK must be available in order to run Eclipse. No JVM was found after searching the following locations

Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:
A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
Have gotten eclipse to open and work on projects before and won't open.
Here is a screen shot of what I keep getting:

You can explicitly tell Eclipse where to find it. Open eclipse.ini and add the following lines to the top of the file:
-vm
/absolute/path/to/jre6/bin
Update: I just nailed down the root cause on my own Windows machine. The GlassFish installer complained with exactly the same error message and after digging in GlassFish forums, the cause was clear: a corrupt JRE install on a Windows machine. My JRE came along with the JDK and the Java 6 JDK installer didn't install the JRE properly somehow. A DLL file was missing in JDK's JRE installation. After I reinstalled the standalone JRE from http://java.com, overwriting the old one, the GlassFish installer continued and also Eclipse was able to start flawlessly without those two lines in eclipse.ini.

I got this problem because i uninstalled the jdk version 13 and reinstall the jdk version 8
Even though i have updated the path variables eclipse still pick the old configuration.
You need to edit the eclipse.ini file which is in your folder where eclipse.exe is placed.
Just update this file with the latest path so eclipse can pick it up

It usually is because:
you indicated the wrong jvm path in your -vm argument: see this SO question for an concrete example.
the eclipse.ini got corrupted somehow (if it hasn't been modified, this isn't it, but if setting a jvm path doesn't work, ... I would replace the eclipse.ini by one coming from a fresh installation just to be sure)
the java which eclipse search by default is no longer accessible (because the $PATH is no longer up-to-date)
More details on the wiki page "Finding a VM, Using JNI Invocation or Executing Java"
No -vm specified
When no -vm is specified, the launcher looks for a virtual machine first in a jre directory in the root of eclipse and then on the search path.
If java is found in either location, then we look for a jvm shared library (jvm.dll on window, libjvm.so on *nix platforms) relative to that java executable.
If a jvm shared library is found we load it and use the JNI invocation api to start the vm.
If no jvm shared library is found, we exec the java launcher to start the vm in a new process.
As mentioned in "FAQ How do I run Eclipse?":
Eclipse DOES NOT consult the JAVA_HOME environment variable.
So I would check your $PATH, starting by n new shell sesion (whatever your OS is), typing 'java -version' to see if it still returns anything.

Copy javaw.exe from C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8(or)1.6(or)1.7\bin
and paste it inside Eclipse folder
where eclipse.exe is there. That's all.

Here is how I fixed mine:
find the location where your jre is installed. in my case, it was located at C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10
copy the jre folder and paste it where your eclipse files are located (where eclipse.exe is located).
when you download eclipse, you get a .zip package containing eclipse.exe and all the other files needed to run eclipse but it is missing the jre files. so all you need to do is to find where jre folder is located on your hard drive and add it to the rest of the eclipse package.

I had the same problem and the issue was that I had a 32 bit version of Eclipse running on my 64 bit machine and it wanted the 32 bit version of JRE.
I changed Program Files to Program Files (x86) in the eclipse.ini file like so:
-VM
C:Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin
and that solved the problem.
You may want to just install the 64 bit Eclipse, but this will take care of the error.

Did you install Java via the java.com web browser auto install? If so, then that's your problem! You need to to the "manual" install: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
It's just a matter of having the correct match of 32-bit Eclipse/32-bit Java or 64-bit Eclipse/64-bit Java. Many 64-bit Windows have 32-bit browsers and the latter is the version of Java that the auto-installer will provide - not what the 64-bit Eclipse wants.

Make sure the install path of JDK is in your Path variable in Windows.

adding -vm C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_29/bin/javaw.exe to the .ini file helped me.

Is so simple,only add your java path for example:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\bin
in PATH system variable

I have faced the similar issue earlier with Eclipse and STS IDE'S
Please check weather JDK/JRE is available or not in your machine. If not please install JDK and setup the environment variables.
Even after step 1, if you are still facing the issue then it's time to set the vm argument in eclipse.ini or sts.ini in the following way.
-vm
C:Program Files (x86)\Java\jre8\bin

I also had same problem when developing android applications using eclipse IDE.
I solved it by removing all the java installations (I had java 6 and 7 both) and re-install only jdk 7.

I got this fixed by doing the below steps,
1)
The eclipse finds the JAVA executables from 'C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath'
The folder structure will contain shortcuts to the below executables,
i. java.exe
ii. javaw.exe
iii. javaws.exe
For me the executable paths were pointing to my (ProgramFiles(x84)) folder location
I corrected it to Program Files path(64 bit) and the issue got resolved
Please find the screenshot for the same.

Just to add on top of other answers:
Windows Users: You can give the PATH to JRE in eclipse.ini separated by '/' or '\'. It doesn't matter. Eclipse will pick it anyway. For example, in my windows system, either of the paths is fine (after -vm of course):
C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_181/bin
or C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_181\bin

Change the vm value in eclipse.ini file with the correct path to your JDK something like this,
-vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.5.jdk/Contents/Home/bin
Path to eclipse.ini looks to me something like this,
/Users/tomcat/eclipse/jee-2018-09/Eclipse.app/Contents/Eclipse

This sometimes happen if you remove Java from your path variables.
To set the PATH variable again, add the full path of the jdk\bin directory to the PATH variable. Typically, the full path is:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11\bin
To set the PATH variable on Microsoft Windows:
Select Control Panel and then System.
Click Advanced and then Environment Variables.
Add the location of the bin folder of the JDK installation to the
PATH variable in system variables.

I had this problem too on a win7 machine.
I wanted to update the jre with a jdk. So i deleted the jre folder and downloaded and unzipped the new jdk.
The issue was i manually deleted the jre folder, when instead i should've uninstalled it. This leaves a bunch of registry entries that still point to the old jre. Somehow eclipse still wants to use the old jre.
I couldn't uninstall the old java vm, i kept getting this error:
Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor
So i had to use this MS utility to fix the uninstall:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2438651/
Then i had to install again the vm. I installed to the same location the original one was at, to avoid losing another hour! After that eclipse started correctly.
Julio

I just had this problem and fixed it this way. I noticed the error message has jre in it not jre6 or jre7, so i copied jre6 from program files to eclipse folder then renamed it from jre6 to jre, then it worked :p

Newb move on my part, but I had installed just the JRE instead of JDK. Installed JDK and my problem went immediately away.

I had this problem and it was due to my windows machine playing up. I went into control panel -> system -> advanced - environment variables.
I edited the PATH variable (which was already correctly set up), changed NOTHING, clicked OK to come back out of the screens.
Then eclipse worked. No idea why, except because windows. Hopefully this may help someone.

I had this issue; I fixed it by going to
Computer-->Properties-->Advanced Settings-->Environmental Variables
In the System Variables find the variable named PATH.
-->Select Edit
-->At the very end of the Path Variable, put a ";" then add your path of your JDK and put \bin\ at the end
Should be fixed.
Example:
System Variable-
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files.......HP\LeanFT\bin
JDK path-
C:\Programs Files\Java\jre1.8.0_121
Final Path -
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files.......HP\LeanFT\bin;C:\Programs Files\Java\jre1.8.0_121\bin\
Sources:
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/path.xml

Its simple.
JDK bin directory or JRE bin directory should be in path variable
Example :
Java Installed directory:
Assume your java installed in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144' directory
Now you can find bin directory in 'C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin'
Navigate to user's environment variable
Control Panel --> User Accounts --> User Accounts --> Change my environment variables
In popup click Path under User variables for section
Click Edit... button and another popup will appear
Click New button and enter C:\Program Files\java\Jdk1.8.0_144\bin
Click OK button and again OK button in Environment variables popup.
Now you can open your eclipse without error

I found a solution wherein the Eclipse.ini the location was the old version of Java, and after updating the new version of java the location of
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_201\bin
was same so I had to change the directory to my new version of Java.
So solution is to just open the most updated Java version and copying its directory path and replacing it in the Eclipse.ini file.

Moderately future proof example for Linux-like systems. Assuming javac installed and on your path.
./eclipse -vm dirname $(readlink -f $(which javac))
This will find the directory where javac is installed, and pass as vm argument to eclipse.

If on Linux (ex: Ubuntu 18), try installing (or reinstalling in your case?) default-jre, as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install default-jre
I had the same error when just trying to run the Eclipse installer (./eclipse-inst) on a fresh Eclipse download just now, and the installer wouldn't even run! Installing default-jre solved it!
Source:
https://linux4one.com/how-to-install-eclipse-ide-on-ubuntu-18-04/

In my case I had edited the eclipse.ini for a different purpose to include -vm parameter. That was causing the failure. I removed the -vm and following line where I had included \bin and that fixed the problem.

I got ERROR:
RESOLUTION :
in file eclipse.ini at below location :
make change as :
-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_251/jre/bin/server/jvm.dll
Restart eclipse and error will be resolved

C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_221\bin
worked for me