[7u4] .jar association broken on Windows

[Alex Lam S.L.]

As far as I can tell, there has not been any manual modifications of
file associations on both Windows machines, i.e. only bulk-standard
JDK / JRE (un)installations have ever been performed.

Thanks for the pointers - I will have a look at the JIRA issue.
Although I confirm that this has nothing to do with JavaFX?


Alex.



On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Igor Nekrestyanov
<igor.nekrestyanov at oracle.com> wrote:
> This sounds like the same issue reported in JavaFX context:
>   http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-21194
>
> At this point we are not clear how this can happen (except user creating
> manual association at some point)
> and we only seen few reports so far.
>
> Please follow troubleshooting steps there to provide us more information.
> In particular validate you do not have .jar association settings in the HKCU
> branch.
>
> Please add details to the same JIRA issue,
>
> -igor
>
>
> On 5/2/12 10:13 AM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have tried JDK 7u4 (32/64-bit) and JRE 7u4 (32-bit), on a Win7 (x64)
>> box and a WinXP (32-bit) box, and after installation all .jar
>> association has been removed.
>>
>> So now I cannot double-click any JAR files in Windows Explorer to run
>> them. I previously had 7u2 on the Win7 box and 6u31 on the WinXP box,
>> and they were working okay.
>>
>> This is of course rather annoying - I would like to know if this is
>> just me or have I missed something important?
>>
>>
>> Alex.
>
>