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• Pick the self-installing executable corresponding to your O/S type (32 or 64bits)
• When asked about the install path, use something that doesn't have space in it.  e.g. c:\bin\Java\jdk1.7.0_25
• Note where you're installing it. Set the Windows System variable JAVA_HOME to this path.
  • I removed the user 'JAVA_HOME' variable to prevent the System variable from being overridden.
• Add %JAVA_HOME%\bin to the PATH system variable
  Administrator@cc-svr10 ~

Verify the above by opening a cygwin terminal and using which to discover the location of java and javac. E.g.

$ which java
/cyg/c/bin/Java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/java

Administrator@cc-svr10 ~
$ which javac
/cyg/c/bin/Java/jdk1.7.0_25/bin/javac

Step 3) Install Python 2.7 for Windows

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