Adb' Is Not Recognized as an Internal or External Command, Operable Program or Batch File

adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Set the path of adb into System Variables. You can find adb in "ADT Bundle/sdk/platform-tools" Set the path and restart the cmd n then try again.

You can also goto the dir where adb.exe is located and do the same thing if you don't wanna set the PATH.

If you wanna see all the paths, just do

echo %PATH%

adb is not recognized as internal or external command on windows

If you go to your android-sdk/tools folder I think you'll find a message :

The adb tool has moved to platform-tools/

If you don't see this directory in your SDK,
launch the SDK and AVD Manager (execute the android tool)
and install "Android SDK Platform-tools"

Please also update your PATH environment variable to
include the platform-tools/ directory, so you can
execute adb from any location.

So you should also add C:/android-sdk/platform-tools to you environment path. Also after you modify the PATH variable make sure that you start a new CommandPrompt window.

adb is not recognized as internal or external command, operable program or batch file

The path should have

C:\Android\platform-tools

instead of

C:\Android\platform-tools\adb.exe

adb is not recognized as internal or external command on windows. I can only use adb when i am in the android sdk

There is a variable Path aswell, with values separated by ;.

This is the only variable that matters when Windows tries to find an executable without the absolute path to the file given.

For example, if your current path looks like

C:\Some\Folder;C:\Some\Other\Folder;D:\My\Directory

just add another entry to the end (or the beginning) like

C:\Some\Folder;C:\Some\Other\Folder;D:\My\Directory;C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Android\sdk

Then you should be able to find all .exe files in that sdk folder. Don't forget that you have to restart your command line (or whatever tool you want to use adb from) after editing the variables for that to take effect.

You can also reuse your existing variables in the path:

C:\Some\Folder;C:\Some\Other\Folder;D:\My\Directory;%ANDROID_HOME%

You can add new entries to the end, at the beginning or somewhere in the middle - that influences the order in which Windows checks the folders to find the exe. When there is only one folder containing your .exe, the order does not matter.