'Could not create' and 'Fatal exception' while installing Java

Question

Win7 64bit
latest Firefox
Java 7.10 64 and 32 bit
Hello!
Since weeks i have the following problem. Every time i want to install Java (62 or 64 bit), after the installation progress bar reached 100% and the windows closes i get 2 error messages, both containing the errors:
'Could not create Java Virtual Machine' and
'Fatal exception occured. Program will exit'
After closing both error messages i get the 'Installation successful' screen of Java again.
However, if i start firefox and go to a page requiring java (the official testing page for example), firefox freezes until i kill the process manually.
So far i reinstalled Java repeatedly, cleaning every trace of it on my system before doing so, including entrys in the microsoft uninstall wizard and the registry entrys, as described here:
+hkey_local_machine>software>microsoft>windows>currentversion>uninstall
search for "java"
delete entrys+
what is the programms problem??
edit: i cant acess java from the windows control panel either, i get the same error messages
Edited by: 981351 on 11.01.2013 07:04

Answer 1

I don't know that I'll be able to offer up any useful advice but here goes...
Can you enable extra verbose logging as part of the installation & post the results here or on pastebin.com?
jre-7u11-windows-i586.exe /l*vx c:\JavaInstall.log(feel free to adjust the log path to a more suitable location)
All of our users are local admins and tend to install whatever. This leads to a messy environment and we don't always know which version of Java is installed. So, to address that, I created a small script that scours 'HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall' for Java entries, reads the uninstall string then runs the reported uninstall string. The assumption here is that the uninstall string will be an MSI command. (All the machines & versions of Java used the same format.)
This is a Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit) environment, but the script also works on 64-bit installations of Windows 7 Enterprise.
I've tested this with 7u11 and went as far back as 6u21. It should work with just about any version that uses MSI for uninstalling.
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo. & echo Checking for Obsolete Versions of Java...
for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`reg query HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall`) do (
     rem echo a is %%a
     for /f "usebackq tokens=2*" %%b in (`reg query "%%a" /v DisplayName 2^>nul ^| find /i "java"`) do (
          rem echo b is %%b
          rem echo c is %%c
          for /f "usebackq tokens=3,4" %%d in (`reg query "%%a" /v UninstallString 2^>nul`) do (
               echo.     Removing %%c
               rem echo d is %%d
               rem echo e is %%e
               set uninstallcmd=%%e
               set uninstallcmd=!uninstallcmd:^/I=^/X!
               rem %%d %%e /qb-
               %%d !uninstallcmd! /qb-
:end
endlocal
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