A Microsoft Support article 329308article from way back in 2007 — number 329308 — describes a bug in Shell32.dll, which is the cause of this problem. The solution is to add a PATH
variable to mythe user variables list with PATH
that is set to
%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
%ANT_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
andThis worked-around around the issue. I don't like setting it for just my user, but somehow my system is presenting the symptomsymptoms of this old bug and I see no other better answer yet.