To run Cassandra on Windows, after executing bin\cassandra without problems, we need to insert the line if NOT DEFINED CASSANDRA_HOME set CASSANDRA_HOME=%CD% into the cassandra-cli.bat file before we execute it. That line is missing in cassandra-cli.bat, so add it and Cassandra will execute perfectly!
. . . SETLOCAL if NOT DEFINED CASSANDRA_HOME set CASSANDRA_HOME=%CD% SET CASSANDRA_LIBS=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib FOR %%a IN (%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib\*.jar) DO call :append %%~fa java -cp %CASSANDRA_LIBS% org.apache.cassandra.cli.CliMain . . . Someone please tell the developers about this bug. Michael was the one who find it out. Bye!
