Where is adb.exe in windows 10 located?

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It is located in the AppData hidden folder

C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools

From l33t's comment below you may use the following shortcut:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\sdk\platform-tools

You can find it here:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools

To save yourself the hassle in the future, add it to your path:

1. Click 'Start'.
2. Type 'Edit environment variables for your account', and click it.
3. Double click PATH.
4. Click 'New'.
5. Paste that path in.
6. Click 'OK', click 'OK', and restart any command prompts you have open.

• Open android studio

• Press configure or if project opens go to settings

• lookup Android SDK shown in picture

• You can see your Android SDK Location. Open file in file explorer to that location.

• Add this to end or direct through to this

\platform-tools\adb.exe

full path on my pc is :

C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools

If you are not able to find platform-tools folder, please open SDK Manager and install "Android SDK Platform-Tools" from SDK Tools tab.

Steps to add adb.exe to environment variables for global access

• Run the following on Windows Run (Win + R)

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Android\sdk\platform-tools

• Copy the path to the folder from the address bar

• Then, search for Environment Variables on the windows search bar

• Click on Environment Variables

• Under System Variables select the Path environment variable & click on Edit

• If the Path environment variable does not exist, create a new one by clicking on New

• A new window appears - in the new window, click on New

• Then paste the path to adb.exe

• Click OK (thrice!)

You can now access the commands like adb, sqlite3 etc globally from Windows

Open a cmd window and type where adb.exe

For me

D:\android-sdk_r24.4.1-windows\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\adb.exe

I have taken snapshot of adb.exe directory. I hope it helps you best,