Java Causing System Freeze / Lockup

Hey guys,
Ok after days of having my system seem to lock up for no reason I think I've tracked down the culprit. It seems that any time the JRE is accessed on my machine it causes a lockup. I've tried the following and each results in a system lockup.
Trying to uninstall using the Control Panel
Trying to verify version using Firefox / Chrome / IE
Trying to reinstall using the offline downloadable
I launch into safe mode and I can verify the version using Firefox / Chrome / IE. So I was thinking maybe some program was preventing it and causing all this so I uninstalled my nod32 antivirus. I shutdown SpySweeper. I disabled my firewall. I then went an uninstalled my graphics driver and turned off every program that was running.
And still it froze when attempting to even verify the current installed version. And any attempts to uninstall fail with a freeze. I also found a program that was supposed to remove old versions but that didn't help me at all.
Any help would be most appreciated guys as I've been banging my head on this for a while now.

You seem to focus very much on Java. But more likely the problem is in your OS, because otherwise reinstalling Java would certainly work. What OS are we talking about here? I see IE so it must be a variant of Windows, but which one?

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