Windows could not start Elastic search service locally

Question

I was getting this windows service error due to a recent Java update on my local machine.

Answer 1

I was finally able to resolve it by following the steps below:

• Go to 'System Environment Variables'

• Verify 'JAVA_HOME' is pointing to the correct location. If not, change it.

  C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-13.0.1

• Go to the 'bin' folder for elastic-search-7.4.2 and run below commands to remove and reinstall the service.

  C:\elasticsearch-7.4.2\bin elasticsearch-service.bat remove

  C:\elasticsearch-7.4.2\bin elasticsearch-service.bat install