doug Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 I seem to have a lot of Java applications running in Add/Remove. Some of them seem to be updates of previous ones which obviously have not been removed during the update processes. Any suggestions as how to tidy them up and what would be recommendations as to what I should have. I'm using Firefox most of the time and IE occasionally. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 All I have now is Java 6 update 3All the others I chucked out some time ago - I don't understand why they don't automatically delete older versions when you do the updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 I have found that if I try to remove old ones after installing the latest, then the latest will also not work. I would suggest that you download the latest to a folder, then uninstall ALL the old ones, and only then install the latest. This always works fine. :D GUARANTEED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted January 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Ta very much to you both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 I have found that if I try to remove old ones after installing the latest, then the latest will also not work. I would suggest that you download the latest to a folder, then uninstall ALL the old ones, and only then install the latest. This always works fine. :D GUARANTEED.Conversely, I just install the new one and uninstall the old one(s) afterwards - I've never had any problems doing it this way :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted January 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Well mine are all gone bar one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 You can also delete all the old subfolders in the C:\Program Files\Java directory. (Keep the latest, of course.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 19, 2008 Report Share Posted January 19, 2008 I have found that if I try to remove old ones after installing the latest, then the latest will also not work. I would suggest that you download the latest to a folder, then uninstall ALL the old ones, and only then install the latest. This always works fine. :D GUARANTEED.Conversely, I just install the new one and uninstall the old one(s) afterwards - I've never had any problems doing it this way :) I have had problems with the latest one not working on more than one occasion when I have uninstalled the old ones after installing the new ones. This is why I now do it in the order that I set out. Not to worry, the end result is the same. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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