Meteor on Windows 7: meteor command outputs error

Question

Recently I installed meteor version 1.1.0.2 on my windows 7 (32bit) pc. When I create a project by meteor create myapp it creates a project for me. But after cd myapp when i press meteor command it shows an error. Here is the error message in my cmd prompt:

C:\Users\imran\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.1.3\mt-os.windows.x8
6_32\dev_bundle\lib\node_modules\fibers\future.js:278
                                                throw(ex);
                                                      ^
Error: Couldn't run tasklist.exe: tasklist wasn't found on your system, it usual
ly can be found at C:\Windows\System32\.

Answer 1

If you can find tasklist.exe under C:\\Windows\\System32 then you probably don't have C:\\Windows\\System32 added to your PATH.

Adding C:\\Windows\\System32 to my PATH (environment variable) worked for me :)

Answer 2

i had the same problem so i went into my Environment Variables under system variables added new PATH (in caps) then directed it to C:\\Windows\\System32

though there was a path there initially (with a whole bunch of other things pointing to different places) adding C:\\Windows\\System32 to this didn't seem to work for me. so i created a new one

then i ran a new cmd session as administrator. works fine now