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JAR file association on Windows 7 broken

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I have somehow managed to break the file association between JAR files and 
Java on Windows 7 such that I can no longer double click on an executable 
JAR file.  How can I fix it?  Reinstalling the JRE has not helped.

I can right click on a JAR file and select Open With and then select 
java.exe but there doesn't seem to be a way to specify that that java.exe 
needs the -jar command line option to run them and so this doesn't work.  It 
correctly changes the JAR file icon to the Java icon but they still won't 
open on double click.

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-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
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JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 10:00 +1000
  Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-30 20:08 -0400
    Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 10:55 +1000
      Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-30 18:23 -0700
        Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 11:54 +1000
          Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-30 19:37 -0700
            Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 12:46 +1000
              Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-30 21:52 -0700
      Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-30 21:30 -0400
        Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 11:55 +1000
          Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-30 22:16 -0400
  Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2012-07-01 12:10 +1000
  Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-30 19:11 -0700
  Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-30 21:00 -0700
  Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken jayadeep66@gmail.com - 2012-06-30 21:13 -0700
    Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-30 21:53 -0700
      Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-01 07:41 -0700

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