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Do I Really Need all these Java Versions?

I am not sure how it happened, but when running the Control Panel to Install/Uninstall/Change application software on my Windows 7 (Home edition) system, I find several versions of Java installed. I ...
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Windows 8 Java install is interrupted

Every time i attempt to install JRE 7u9 the installer gives me an error saying that java ran into an unexpected error please try installing later. Whenever i try I get the same error. I attempted to ...
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How can I uninstall Java 7 Update 5 when I don't have the “jre1.7.0_05-c.msi” file?

Whenever I try to update to the latest version of Java, an installation of Java 7 Update 5 is detected and then I'm asked for the file, jre1.7.0_05-c.msi, which I don't have, so then the installation ...
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Removing correctly from a linux system Eclipse

I've installed eclipse not via the package manager but decompressing the tar.gz. Besides the directory and ~/.eclipse/ do I need to remove anything else? I want to do a fresh installation because ...
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If I have Java 7 Updates 4 & 5 both installed, I can delete the earlier one, correct?

Also have JavaFX 2.1.1 installed, if that's relevant. Windows 7 OS.
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Where is Java hiding on my PC?

In my efforts to root out the mysterious Java 1.5.0_11 installation I have hiding somewhere on my PC, I completely uninstalled Java. Now, a search in Explorer turns up nothing, but on the command ...
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Removing Java from OS X Lion

OS X Lion ships without Java now. Installing it is not very difficult - however, our product relies on Java so we need to test the scenario of not having Java installed. Once I've installed Java, is ...
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Uninstall Java from registry/system after manually deleting folder

When I go to 'Add or Remove Programs' in Windows XP, I see entries for some old JDK installations such as 'Java SE Development Kit 6 Update 16'. When I click the Remove button I get the message 'Fatal ...
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How to get rid of a “ghost” Java installation?

Basically, what I did was install the JRE on a USB stick, using the offline installer. Now, the Java installation on the computer I used to do this refuses to be uninstalled or updated -- because it ...
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Having an with Java/ minecraft (Windows 7 64bit) [closed]

I have had issues with java on my computer for a while. First of all, java has never worked on Google Chrome or Firefox, Only IE. Whenever I need to use Java, I use IE. Now, I just tried to play ...
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How to uninstall Java SE from the command line

Oracle states that the Java SE installer is built using MSI, but the help page, rather unhelpfully doesn't list uninstall options. I need to do a command line uninstall, and I can't figure out or ...