• Problem

After running jmeter.bat command under Windows 7 with cmd  the following error is produced:
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs  at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

  •  Environment

Windows 7 64-bit

  •  Resolving the problem

The work around is to login as the administrator and create the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs.

以管理员身份登录，创建HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs项