adb has stopped working in android studio

Question

I am trying to build my first app in android studio and getting an error "adb.exe has stopped working". I am working on Windows xp 32 bit system.

Have tried several solutions available online including -kill server/restart -updating platform tools folder -adding 127.0.0.1 as exception to be allowed Still nothing seems to work out. Kindly help!!! Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The platform tools now depend on the Windows Universal C Runtime, which is usually installed by default via Windows Update. This is required from 28.0.2 (March 2019).

So if you are on an older version of windows or unable to update your windows, you must use an older version of platform-tools.

How to install the older version of platform tools?

1. Delete all files from your your-sdk-location\platform-tools

2. Download platform tools version 28.0.1 from here. Extract and copy all those files to your-sdk-location\platform-tools