Fix: Error occurred during initialization of VM—

[rice]

i went through hell trying to figure this one out ;|
anyway, in case you ever get the error

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

there's a simple solution to it. I have no idea how it happens, it just does, and it's a pain in the butt to fix.

so, you type java in cmd, you get

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

then, you navigate to your java directory, and you still get

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object

Although we may not know how it got there initially, the problem is that your path is targeting the wrong version of java.
Go ahead and navigate to your %PROGRAMFILES%\Java

Well well well, what do we have here? Two jdk folders?

Go back to your cmd, and navigate to the higher one. in my case, it was C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin\

So now that we know that the path is wrong, all we have to do is type a huge command to navigate to the java directory!
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Go to your environmental variables, and edit the PATH (CLASSPATH if necessary), changing ";C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin\" to ";C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\bin\"

And thus, we have fixed this pain in the arse error!