# Issues with Gradle on Windows 10
**URL:** https://discuss.gradle.org/t/issues-with-gradle-on-windows-10/24350
**Category:** Help/Discuss
**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/issues-with-gradle-on-windows-10/24350 "2017-10-06T16:25:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@sebastiaopburnay](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/sebastiaopburnay)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/issues-with-gradle-on-windows-10/24350/1 "2017-10-06T16:25:08Z")
Hi!
I’m having a bit of a hardtime installing Gradle on my Windows 10 laptop.
1. I’ve unziped the Gradle 4.2.1 zip to ‘C:\Gradle’
2. I’ve added the C:\Gradle\gradle-4.2.1\bin to my System’s Path environment variable
3. I’ve checked that my javaw.exe and java.exe are at my %JAVA\_HOME%\bin\ (%JAVA\_HOME% points to where I’ve installed my JDK)
4. I’ve run the command ‘gradle -v’ to check if it is working
5. I get prompted with an error:
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### Author:  [@sebastiaopburnay](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/sebastiaopburnay)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/issues-with-gradle-on-windows-10/24350/2 "2017-10-06T17:04:48Z")
I’ve solved this by running ‘gradle.bat’ - it seems this was a necessary step for installing/setting-up gradle that wasn’t mentioned in the [https://gradle.org/install/#helpful-information](https://gradle.org/install/#helpful-information) page.
I suggest that running the gradle.bat should be included in the instructions for gradle installation in Windows’ Systems.
That gradle.bat execution is only mentioned under section 'Upgrade with the Gradle Wrapper