One thought, based on your description of what happens when your run run.bat. You might be running into the findstr issue (see http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=FindstrCommandNotFound). If that is the case, you can either follow the instructions provided in that link, or comment out these lines in the run.bat: rem Add -server to the JVM options, if supported | rem "%JAVA%" -version 2>&1 | findstr /I hotspot > nul | rem if not errorlevel == 1 (set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -server) (I am not sure why some people do not have findstr in their XP installation. Are you using XP Home by any chance?) If that does not work, comment out the "@echo off" statement at the start of run.bat and post the output when you run run.bat. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135350#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...