Thursday, March 05, 2015

SAP Download manager not working

SAP Download Manager failed to start with error message windows error 2 occurred while loading the java vm

Running with Windows 7 SP1 and latest JAVA version 8 update 40.
to resolve issue you can start using through command prompt with below steps

open command prompt
go to directory where SAP Download manager
CD C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP Download Manager>
execute command java -classpath "DLManager.jar" dlmanager.Application

For permanent settings
Open program group of SAP download manager
create shortcut as shown in below screen shot
where target = java path and command
in target enter "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_40\bin\java.exe" -classpath "DLManager.jar" dlmanager.Application

where start in = location of sap download manager directory
in start in "C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP Download Manager"


Hope this helped you.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent Workaround

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Unknown said...

I had this set up on my old computer but forgot to save off the settings. This saved me a lot of aggravation to reconstruct! Thanks again.