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Java Updating - Always a Hassle?
Once again I find myself with 'real things to do' and updating Java. Boy is this a love/hate relationship. Why can't Oracle get this right?
I successfully downloaded and installed 8.25 (avoiding the 'free bloatware' bundled with it.) I ran the uninstall routine and was assured that I'd successfully uninstalled all previous version.
Just to be sure, I closed SeaMonkey ( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 SeaMonkey/2.30 Build identifier: 20141013232806) and went to Oracle's (Java Uninstall Tool) and sure enough Java 7 Update 67 was apparently still there and could not be uninstalled with error code is 1605.
Sure enough, I found a recommendation that I run Javara. Moments later I was on the MajorGeeks download mirror and found myself facing an 'in my face' you need to run this test first to check for problems with my Windows installation. Instead of Javara the file presented was Reimage. I backed out. I didn't want to go to the next step of verifying that what I was about to do was legit.
I guess I'm damned because:
a) I have enough technical savvy to be suspicious
b) I'm not geek enough to take pleasure in researching all the possible byways I've encountered in updating a minor part of my Web experience.
thanks,
baumgrenze