Add/Remove Programs feature question for Java updates

[John]

Greetings,

There is a little icon on the right side of the bar at the bottom of screen
reminding me that an update for Java is available. I'm a little leery of
installing this update. According to the list of installed programs that
populates when you go to remove a program, I have the following Java updates
installed on my machine:

J2SE Runtile Environment Update 5
" " 6
" " 9

All these updates are quite large (118 MB). I don't want to keep on eating
up space on my hard drive for something as simple as an update. How do you
propose I should handle the situation? If a deleted the 5 and 6 update,
would that adversely impact the performance of Java? If not, I suppose I
could install the most recent update and then erase the ones that preceded
it.

John

 

[Tom Willett]

You should uninstall previous versions of Java before installing a new one.

| Greetings,
|
| There is a little icon on the right side of the bar at the bottom of
screen
| reminding me that an update for Java is available. I'm a little leery of
| installing this update. According to the list of installed programs that
| populates when you go to remove a program, I have the following Java
updates
| installed on my machine:
|
| J2SE Runtile Environment Update 5
| " " 6
| " " 9
|
| All these updates are quite large (118 MB). I don't want to keep on eating
| up space on my hard drive for something as simple as an update. How do you
| propose I should handle the situation? If a deleted the 5 and 6 update,
| would that adversely impact the performance of Java? If not, I suppose I
| could install the most recent update and then erase the ones that preceded
| it.
|
| John
|
|

 

[TOAO]

Hi John .. Do the following John, Uninstall all the java listed , You only
need to have the latest which I will give you the site to get the latest ,
Everytime there is a newer version ? Make sure to uninstall the older one ,
Again only one is needed and that would be the latest , So uninstall all
that are listed in the Add and Remove Programs area , then after reboot your
computer and then after go to this site for the latest

http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

....

 

[Rock]

Greetings,

There is a little icon on the right side of the bar at the bottom of
screen reminding me that an update for Java is available. I'm a little
leery of installing this update. According to the list of installed
programs that populates when you go to remove a program, I have the
following Java updates installed on my machine:

J2SE Runtile Environment Update 5
" " 6
" " 9

All these updates are quite large (118 MB). I don't want to keep on eating
up space on my hard drive for something as simple as an update. How do you
propose I should handle the situation? If a deleted the 5 and 6 update,
would that adversely impact the performance of Java? If not, I suppose I
could install the most recent update and then erase the ones that preceded
it.

You only need to have the most recent update. You should remove previous
versions before installing the latest. The latest release for JRE is
Version 6 update 1. Get it from here:
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Half way down the page click on Download under Java Runtime Environment
(JRE) 6u1.

 

[PA Bear]

1. Uninstall all JRE versions via Add/Remove Programs.

2. Delete %windir%\Program Folders/Java <=this folder; do NOT delete
%windir%\Program Folders/JavaVM <=this folder, if found.

3. Install JRE 1.6.0_1 from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.
Use the Windows-Offline version, saving the download to your desktop.

4. Close all browser windows and install.

Tip: Select Custom Install to avoid installing stuff you don't want or need.

 

[John]

Where do I find the folder %windir%\Program Folders/Java ? Also, does this
procedure of unstalling old versions before installing new ones apply to
quick time as well?

John

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Where do I find the folder %windir%\Program Folders/Java ? Also, does this
procedure of unstalling old versions before installing new ones apply to
quick time as well?

That folder should be %systemdrive%\program files\java, which on a
typical setup is c:\program files\java.

 

[Rock]

Where do I find the folder %windir%\Program Folders/Java ? Also, does
this procedure of unstalling old versions before installing new ones apply
to quick time as well?

%windir% is an environment variable that points to the directory where
windows is installed. Normally that means C:\Windows. From Start | Run |
Cmd | ok type in
cd %windir%. This will take you to the folder where windows is installed.

Some program updates need the previous version installed, some don't. I
don't know about QuickTime. Check with QuickTime / Apple tech support for
information on installing an update.

 

[PA Bear]

Thanks for the correction.

s/b %system%\Program Folders/Java (e.g., C:\Program Files\Java).

 

[John]

While I thank everyone for their help, I still don't get how to find this
folder "%systemdrive%\program files\java". What's more, I don't understand
why I'm doing it. Is there anyway someone could explain how to do it in a
little more detail?

John

 

[Rock]

While I thank everyone for their help, I still don't get how to find this
folder "%systemdrive%\program files\java". What's more, I don't understand
why I'm doing it. Is there anyway someone could explain how to do it in a
little more detail?

John, after uninstalling all the previous versions of java from add/remove
programs, assuming XP is installed on the C:\ drive, look in C:\Program
Files for a sub folder called java. If one exists, delete it.

Then install the latest java version.

%systemdrive% is an environment variable pointing to the drive on which
windows installed. Normally that's the C: drive so
%systemdrive%\Program Files \Java means the C:\Program Files\Java folder.

Ok?

 

[John]

Yes, I have it now. Let's see of it works (I'll make another post).

John

 

[C J.]

%windir% is an environment variable that points to the directory where
windows is installed. Normally that means C:\Windows. From Start | Run |
Cmd | ok type in
cd %windir%. This will take you to the folder where windows is installed.

Some program updates need the previous version installed, some don't. I
don't know about QuickTime. Check with QuickTime / Apple tech support for
information on installing an update.

Quicktime for Windows has an auto update feature that runs from startup axis
called qttask. About once a week, I get prompted to update to the newest
version of their software. As I seldom use it enough to bother with
updating it - I just click Quit.