title: Kafka server not starting on windows, kafka-server-start.bat returning no output
body: <p>Please help me in making Kafka server up and run, I could able to run zookeeper perfectly fine but when I run <code>kafka-server-start.bat D:\Kafka\config\Server.properties</code> command console returning no output.</p>
  
  <p>Note: I have changed <code>log.dirs</code> to my local folder.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IKSyc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kafka- Command output</a></p>
  
  <p>Here is server.properties configuration </p>
  
  <pre><code>broker.id=0
  num.network.threads=3
  num.io.threads=8
  socket.send.buffer.bytes=102400
  socket.receive.buffer.bytes=102400
  socket.request.max.bytes=104857600
  log.dirs=D:\kafka\kafkalogs
  num.partitions=1
  num.recovery.threads.per.data.dir=1
  offsets.topic.replication.factor=1
  transaction.state.log.replication.factor=1
  transaction.state.log.min.isr=1
  log.retention.hours=168
  log.segment.bytes=1073741824
  log.retention.check.interval.ms=300000
  zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181
  zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms=6000
  group.initial.rebalance.delay.ms=0
  </code></pre>