can't find java virtual machine

[MrCactu5]

I got an error message, when trying to compile. At one point it was working, but maybe I screwed up one of the environment variables.

C:\Documents and Settings\jm>mxmlc
Error: could not find a JVM.

[MrCactu5 · Accepted solution]

To answer my own question and save future people pain. In Windows, when Java can't find the virtual machine, you must do

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables

and set up user variable "java_home" to the JDK with forward slashes like so:

C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_06

You do NOT put "/bin". If you put Java in a different folder, you should change java_home accordingly. Now I can move on with life.