I installed Netbeans 7.1.2 to my computer yesterday and it crashed all java functionality. I chose to upgrade because the 7.1 beta IDE that I had installed on this PC, did not recognize the diamonds in the treeset function.
I had several versions installed, including jre 5, 12 that was necessary for an older program to function. I cannot not install any versions now. I get a prompt indicating I need jre 1.6.0_23.msi. I don’t have an .msi file to install from, it is just the java executable. I cannot locate this msi file to trick the install. I also cannot find a registry entry that points to the location that the install program is pointing towards. It is a network drive that does not have the indicated folder on it. (\E10001081).
Does anybody here have any suggestions for cleaning up corrupted java installations? If I try to remove the SDK’s or JRE’s in add/remove programs (XP PRO), I get a fatal error on one and on the remainder the program cannot be found.
Any help would be appreciated.
You can find all previous versions of Java at Oracle’s site
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/archive-139210.html
I would start by uninstalling all versions that can be uninstalled, and then installing again all the versions that I need, from the oldest to the newest.