ASDM error can't find javaw.exe

I'm in the process of setting up some ASAv firewalls at work and I managed to install ASDM successfully but was unable to connect to the firewall. A bit of googling and It turns out the version of ASDM I was running requires a later version of Java so I then proceeded to download and install JRE 8u381 as the version of ASDM required jre8u261 or later. Once installed i received an error Windows cannot find 'javaw.exe' as below. 

 

 

Once again, a bit of quick googling and turns out it's quite a simple fix. You just need to download and install the x86 version of JRE. ASDM doesn't support x64 bit yet surprise surprise. So i went back to the Java website and downloaded the jre x86 version and installed that. 

 

 

Once installed, I could then open ASDM and successfully connect to my firewall. 

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