Re: LF: Re: win-xp JAVA upgrade jammed up -help !-

[ALAN MELIA <alan.melia@btinternet.com>]

Hi Graham, I am surprised at your problems I am running Jave 6 on W2000 Pro, XP and two Linux machines. In fact Java 7 is around now. Firefox uses it and I have been running that for several years. I wonder where you were downloading it from?

Alan

--- On Fri, 6/4/12, Graham <g8fzk@g8fzk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

From: Graham <g8fzk@g8fzk.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: LF: Re: win-xp JAVA upgrade jammed up -help !-
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Date: Friday, 6 April, 2012, 20:11

Thanks  Ron,

 

Will  give it a  try  , sods law , the  problem  is on the  main  PC ........mine   ......  all  the other  pc's round  the place  are  fine  

 

I have  tried  the  'dedicated'  Java  removal   tool's that  are supposed to remove  it , but  these  dont  seem  to  work ,  the  errors  all  seem  to  point to wrong path's  etc  , oddly  looking  in the  settings /doc's / app etc   java   directory , the  file  that is  being  called  is not  there  ..  running  search  also  fails  to  find it  ..  ....   

 

looking  on the  web , it seems Im not the  only  one  with  problems  linked to this file 

 

\Java\jre1.6.0_20\

 

 

Tnx -  G ..

From: Ron Kolarik

Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 7:10 PM

To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org

Subject: LF: Re: win-xp JAVA upgrade jammed up -help !-

Graham,

 

I didn't see an answer to this on the list. You can give Revo uninstaller a try,

it's a freebie and does a very good job of removing stubborn software including

things that hide in the registry http://www.revouninstaller.com/   You can get

the free version on cnet downloads and avoid the adverts on the main page.

 

Ron

K0IDT

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Graham

To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org

Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:10 AM

Subject: LF: win-xp JAVA upgrade jammed up -help !-

The  JAVA  upgrade is  totally  jammed  up  . will  not  install  the
latest  Version  .cannot   de-install  any of the  older  versions
using  the  windows-add/remove.  

 

gives ::error applying transforms  , verify the specified  transform  paths are  valid

 

The  java upgrade  has the  same  problem  with  valid  paths.......

 

Big problem,  Java (old) is  working , but  now  out  of date , some apps   will  not use  it  .....ie  the  web-sdr's  

 

But , non  of the  remove  'systems'  will  take  out the  old  versions or  install  the  new  , all  have  reference to   paths  not  being  valid etc

 

Q  any  ideas  how  to  manually  remove  Java  from  windows xp-pro    sp3 ? ( most links  expect the  windows  remove  function  to  work)

 

Tnx -G.