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After following the blog post on using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Android Studio, and starting the emulator, when I am prompted to choose a running emulator, nothing shows up on the list.

I'm running Windows 10 x64.

Edward Brey
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Open an admin command prompt and enter the following; then restart the emulator.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Android SDK Tools" /v Path /d %localappdata%\Android\sdk

Or update the registry manually:

  1. In regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node.
  2. Create a new key named Android SDK Tools.
  3. Navigate to that key.
  4. Create a new string value named Path. Set its value to the location of your Android SDK, which will be like C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Android\sdk.
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  • This workaround is in the blog comments, but it's buried and easy to miss. – Edward Brey Aug 01 '15 at 15:57
  • This worked perfectly for me. One additional note is you have to restart `Android Studio` after the above changes to `Registry` – Rajaraman Subramanian Feb 27 '18 at 06:36
  • This doesn't seem to work with the current version of Android Studio, and VS Android Emulator on windows 8.1 (including updating with all patches to current) on a fresh install. The emulator launches (and runs way smooth on my crappy APU - AMD 6800K, which is amusing as Googles Android Emulator runs like a bag of crap [even on my Ryzen 7 1800X] and doesn't even support AMD unless running linux, but their version of Android Studio on linux is riddled with glitches and is not clear which flavor/desktop it runs 'best' on) – Kraang Prime Apr 09 '18 at 18:47