I have solved my own problem. Those search paths are all messed up!

I checked the installation path and it's installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Android even thou I do have a 64-bit version of Windows. But nevertheless, this is the default installation location.


So I updated the PATH variable with following line.

`C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\`

And now I cam start ADB server from CMD regardless of where the prompt is at.

![Android SDK ADB server in CMD screen][1]

I have no clue why they are referring to AppData\Local\ folder in the guide for the 64-bit systems. That makes no sense at all. If anywhere, the installation location should be in "Program Files" folder for a 64-bit system. They actually put this in for the 32-bit systems... like I said, it's all messed up.

I should point out that `adb.exe` has been moved from `C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\tools\` to the new location `C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\`. This has been done in later versions of Android SDK.

So if you are reading this in year 2013 then you can probably just get the latest SDK and use only this last search path. You don't need them both, there are two of them for compatibility reasons.


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/n2idA.png