Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Success! [Was: Can't get [any jar files] to run any more] Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:33:03 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <2d421bb3-ba2d-46e8-863f-60cf0ee48222@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:29:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4cabb85e400a98a1069c0cee1b53107c"; logging-data="969"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Iu9/dwmFB6upbBYh+n4UruTggcSp1PVE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 In-Reply-To: <2d421bb3-ba2d-46e8-863f-60cf0ee48222@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 170718-0, 2017-07-18), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:f0VmmpltqF3CpeNJwy35gKvUMHo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36968 On 2017-07-17 9:04 AM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 4:31:39 PM UTC-4, Rhino wrote: >> Unfortunately, it's water under the bridge. I'm still trying to figure >> out what I should do now to get things back into a state where Eclipse >> runs again. >> > > Uninstall all JRE and JDK from Control Panel. Then run CCleaner should remove any lingering registry entries. > https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download > Finally run Windows Cleanup to make sure there are no Java references. > https://www.techspot.com/downloads/388-windows-installer-cleanup-utility.html > > Then do a clean install JDK. > Then open a command window (cmd.exe) and type SET. This will show your current environment variables. The most important thing to check for should be PATH. My path includes C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath so I'm guessing you'll need that. If you need to add to it just type set Path=newpath%Path% > >>> >> I'm sympathetic to what you're saying, I really am. I was an OS/2 loyalist >> for several years and would probably still be on it if IBM hadn't given >> up on it. I have some Linux experience and am not completely adverse to > > Most people use Windows because most companies run clients on Windows, even if the servers run on Linux, and most new computers come with Windows. To get any other desktop/laptop you have to build it yourself or special order it. Now we have even more incentive to run Windows since Intel bought McAfee. If you run 7th gen Intel chips they're specially designed to work with Windows 10. > Having uninstalled the JDK and JRE and then reinstalled them, my Eclipse is now working again as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. My jar files also work normally too now. Hurrah!!!! -- Rhino