Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JAR file association on Windows 7 broken Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:11:59 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 02:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HeAfR1gZMqmsfw+BpFnwzQ"; logging-data="21808"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+AGjtT9SpFPbf4Z26c1NJPfoJugBkaztg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:6zBjn05NjFYNuDBM3cGCS2Ekilc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15766 On 6/30/2012 5:00 PM, Qu0ll wrote: > 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. That's weird to me that a reinstall doesn't help. You may have to clean out your registry. (Maybe: uninstall, clean, then reinstall?) But anyway, this link seems to describe how you can set file associations with command line parameters: