Should I remove older versions of Java from Add/Remove Programs?
I have about 9 or 10 older versions of Java mostly version 5 updates 2-11installed in the Add/Remove programs section of Control Panel. Should I remove these or leave them installed before installing the next update 6.2?
Yea, you should definitely remove them via the add/remove tool.
Sometimes if you are developing for different versions you might
have more than one - but in most cases more than 1 or 2 is
unnecessary.
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HT1925 how do i remove older versions of iTunes from my macbook air.
how can i remove old versions of itunes from my macbook air
Welcome to Apple Communities
When you update iTunes, older versions are replaced. If you didn't update, go to Software Update -
java applets will not load,
i have run the java test page & i have the latest version installed.
have removed all old versions of java from my hard drive & restarted the computer.
i have checked that java is enabled in the plug-ins and it is with version se 6 u22, also something called java development toolkit 6.0.220.4 np runtime script plug-in library for java (tm) deploy.
if i click on java console in tolls nothing happensHi,
You might want to look in your control panel for 'Java' icon. It should give you an option to enable java plugin into your browser. Let me know if you still face the issue.
Thanks! -
Should I remove older version s of firefox when newer versions have been uploaded
I am not aware of a problem , I am simply trying to understand the revisions and whether I need to keep older versions in order to run the newer firefox
It's not necessary to uninstall anything especially since you aren't using a 4beta version. And there are some serious risks to losing important data that you store if you don't remove older versions very carefully.
If you decide that you don't like 4.0 you can easily go backwards & reinstall 3.6 without any problems (and without risk of losing data).
One point though: if you are a bookmark fiend like me, it's a really good idea to back up your bookmarks before you make''' any''' changes to firefox. I'm so obsessive that I back them up constantly (and I don't rely on FF's automatic bookmark-backup process), but that's just me being paranoid from learning the very hard way a long time ago. -
Java does not update older version when installing from MSI file
I'm using an MSI file of Java because it's easier for deploying through SCCM. Anyway when I do everything works fine except it does not update older versions of Java. So for instance if I have Java 7 update 7 and install Java 7 update 21 using the MSI file I'll then have two versions of Java installed on my computer. Anybody know a way to install using the MSI file where it updates older versions of Java (as long as it's the same major revision) like the exe would?
Yes same problem here. I had a successful rollout with the MSI package and version 1.7 Update 17 on 1500 computers!
I packaged the Update 21 and on my first test-clients the control panel crashes when I try to open it. But the setup ends successful without any error code all eventviewer entries are successful and it seems that the environment is running. Firefox plugintest was successful.
Why doesn't offer Orcale the MSI files?! Since last year Java cost me o lot of time deploying Java. There is no update which you can release quickly because there are always bugs to deploy them. -
The older version of itunes cannot be removed. contact your technical support group.
need help with itunes 12.1
my itunes was working just fine on my windows 7 pro PC.
Update 12.1 popped up and I clicked download and install and now all of my itunes is gone.
I uninstalled all Apple software packages, and also pain stakingly went thru my registry line by line and deleted all references to itunes, apple, quicktime, etc., then downloaded fresh downloads of the installer and each time I get just about to the end of the installer and a window pops up and says
"the older version of itunes cannot be removed. contact your technical support.
So, I tried downloading the previous version 11.4 and 10.7 64bit installers and then the system won't even get started doing an install when the system responds...
"a newer version of itunes is already installed", and the installer quits.
I have cleaned my registry now about 5 times, I ran all of the apps to clean my PC of all of the apple and itune files. I am an administrator on my PC. I also went as far as creating a second administrator and switching under that account and still get the same responses.
I have removed any attached external drives and tried the installer.
I have tried to install itunes under a different folder location instead of the default C:\Program Files directory.
I have tried to install via the Apple Software Upgrade utility as well as direct downloads of the installers.
All of my music is gone.
When I run the installer now, all of the other apple software files install ok, with the exception of itunes. It gets nearly complete when the "older version" error comes up then I notice it backs off the installation and no files or directories are created.
There is nothing in the Control Panel 'Add/Remove Programs' as far as iTunes, their are no directories or files, yet it still sees a old version of itunes referenced in some file on the pc.
I ran a couple of utilities such as CCleaner, Everything, Revo Uninstaller and Registry Reviver, as well as going thru regedit line by line for hours to remove references to apple and itunes - all still with the same results.
Either I get a 'the older version cannot be removed' or 'a newer version of itunes is already installed'
very frustrated.
anyone have a installer that will complete ignoring any errors?For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
If you are running 64-bit Windows and the above steps haven't helped try installing the version of iTunes that can be downloaded from this support document. iTunes 12.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)
If you still have no luck try reinstalling iTunes 12.0, links in the user tip.
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I have Windows XP, 32 bit version 2002 Svc Pack 2 and when trying to download iTunes 10.5.1 I am getting the following "The older version of Bonjour cannot be removed. Contact your technical support." I've tried a good number of remedies to no avail. Can anyone help?
For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
If you are running 64-bit Windows and the above steps haven't helped try installing the version of iTunes that can be downloaded from this support document. iTunes 12.1 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)
If you still have no luck try reinstalling iTunes 12.0, links in the user tip.
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Cannot remove older version/won't install
So I update iTunes because a new version is available and then I restart like it always asks me to. But when I try to open iTunes after restarting, "This action is only valid for products that are currently installed". So I go to itunes.com and try to install the newest version again. After the installation starts, though, an error message comes up saying "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'iTunes.msi' in the box below.
When I try to uninstall, it gives me the same error message and then says "The older version of iTunes cannot be removed."
I've never had this problem before so I have no idea what's going on. I search for the file 'iTunes.msi' on my computer, found one and put that path in the box but it still gives me the same error message. Any suggestions?Ok I'll give you my cleanup instructions for itunes. You need to follow these steps exactly and carefully. If you have any questions about anything then please post before doing it.
1. Uninstall itunes and ipod software. If you can't uninstall use the MSI clean utility.
2. Reboot your PC
3. Re-download the itunes installer and QT and save this installer to your desktop
4. Go to C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations. You should see folders like {06EB3288-C5F4-4C73-8EEE-AC798668FF66}
5. Look in each of these folders for itunes.msi and delete the folder. Be careful to only delete the folders containing itunes.msi
6. Clean out your temp folders, Delete as much as you can in these folders except for the folders Cookies, History, Temporary Internet Files.
a. C:\windows\temp (if one exists)
b. C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local Settings\Temp
Sometimes installers will pick up old files or won’t delete their temporary files.
Leave the files if you have doubt about deleting the files.
7. (OPTIONAL) Go to http://www.download.com/3000-2094-881470.html and download the regcleaner. Unpack it and run it. This is a nice utility that will delete broken registry entries and create a file with them. This way if it deletes anything needed you can add it back. Note I never had to do this with using it for many years. Also it doesn't list XP but you'll be fine. I run XP on both.
8. Reboot your PC.
9. Now try to go and install everything again. I'd do QT first then follow with itunes. Remember to disable virus/firewall/privacy/web accelerators before launching the install.
If you launch the MSI Cleanup utility it will list applications in the window. Select the one you want to remove and click ok. This will remove the msi information from your pc. You still need to do the delete steps in the Program Files folder for ipod, itunes and quicktime cause the cleanup utility won't do this.
Again if you have any questions just post back. -
How do you remove older versions of flash player?
I have uninstalled the flash player and re-installed with the
new version, but I am still unable to get rid of version 9.0.115.0.
I can not find anything on the adobe site to remedy this. This is
my first laptop and don't want any unnecessary vulnerabilities on
it. Below is the link to the site where I got my information as
well as the"'warning" about the only thing that shows up vulnerable
on my computer.
http://secunia.com/advisories/28083/
NOTE: When updating Flash Player, older versions are not
always automatically removed from your system. If older versions
were detected that you believe should not be present, then please
contact the vendor regarding how to remove them from your system.
Thanks for any help.I have Macromedia Flash Player versions 4.0.7.0, 6.0.80.0,
6.0.79.0 and 7.0.19.0 on my system and have tried using the Adobe
uninstaller multiple time to no avail (does it just uninstall from
the browser?). Anyway, I agree it appears these old files may be
vulnerable. Why does Adobe make it so difficult to remove old
programs? By the way they do not appear in my Windows Add/Remove
list. Please give us some specific method to remove them (not just
another reference to the uninstaller). Thank you -
Uninstalling All versions of Java from Windows Silent
Hi Everyone,
If there is something somewhere on Sun sites that does this already I appologize, but I have to get all previous version of Java from Sun uninstalled from over 700 hundred PCs and so I have created a set of scripts to uninstall all previous versions.
You would copy 'java-uninstall.bat' and 'java-uninstaller.vbs' to c:\temp (make sure you have one) the script can be modified for another location of your choosing. Then you can execite the batch file or have it scheduled to do that with the NT 'AT' command. It will uninstall anything that shows up in Add/Remove programs with 'Java' in the displayname and 'Sun' as the publisher. This would including removal of SDK amd JRE versions, so keep that in mind.
This could probably be used in the login script, but thats not how I deploy updates, it may be fashioned to work with SMS, I don't know. I have a script that goes through network copying files to c$ shares and scheduling it for later in the night.
Also note this just uninstalls the older versions I have another script that does the reinstalling of the newer version.
Files below:
[java-uninstall.bat]
REM <start>
@echo off
if not exist c:\temp\. mkdir c:\temp
REM Export the Uninstall registry keys
start /wait "" REGEDIT /E c:\temp\registry.tmp HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall
REM Filter only the {} keys that Java might be in
type c:\temp\registry.tmp | find /i "\{" | find /i "}]" > c:\temp\uninstall.tmp
REM Run the Vbscript that uses this file to find Java Sun entries to uninstall
cscript c:\temp\java-uninstaller.vbs
REM <end>
[java-uninstaller.vbs]
'<start>
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim fso, MyFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
'Open the exported registry file
Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\temp\uninstall.tmp", ForReading)
Do While mYFile.AtEndOfStream <> True
ReadLineTextFile = MyFile.ReadLine
Uninstall = ReadLineTextFile
CLSID = Mid(Uninstall, 73, 38)
On Error Resume Next
'DisplayName
DisplayName=WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"+CLSID+"\DisplayName")
'Publisher
Publisher=WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\"+CLSID+"\Publisher")
'Search for presence of Java and Sun in DisplayName and Publisher
search1 = Instr(1, DisplayName, "Java", 1)
search2 = Instr(1, Publisher, "Sun", 1)
'Execute removal if there is a match
Uninstaller="MsiExec.exe /X"&CLSID+" /QN"
if search1>0 And search2>0 Then Return = WshShell.Run(Uninstaller , 1, TRUE)
Loop
'<end>Here is a batch file that I wrote to accomplish the same objective of uninstalling all versions of Java Virtual Machine JVM from a XP/Vista box:
You can name it anything you like, such as cleanjava.bat:
@echo off & cls
Rem List all Installation subkeys from uninstall key.
echo Searching Registry for Java Installs
for /f %%I in ('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall') do echo %%I | find "{" > nul && call :All-Installations %%I
echo Search Complete..
goto :EOF
:All-Installations
Rem Filter out all but the Sun Installations
for /f "tokens=2*" %%T in ('reg query %1 /v Publisher 2^> nul') do echo %%U | find "Sun" > nul && call :Sun-Installations %1
goto :EOF
:Sun-Installations
Rem Filter out all but the Sun-Java Installations. Note the tilda + n, which drops all the subkeys from the path
for /f "tokens=2*" %%T in ('reg query %1 /v DisplayName 2^> nul') do echo . Uninstalling - %%U: | find "Java" && call :Sun-Java-Installs %~n1
goto :EOF
:Sun-Java-Installs
Rem Run Uninstaller for the installation
MsiExec.exe /x%1 /qb
echo . Uninstall Complete, Resuming Search..
goto :EOFAdditional Info: http://tinyurl.com/29cdah
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Although I have a new MacBook, I also have an older desktop Mac OS X 10.4.11 (which I still use) that just recently "stated" the older Java plug-in has been removed and the newer version needs to be installed. The Mac OS X 10.4.11 doe not appear to be compatible with the updated version of Java. Prior to this week, my grandchildren have been able to play some online early childhood games with this computer and I have been able to watch the occasional YouTube video. Can the older version of Java be restored to the Mac OS X 10.4.11?
I'm not familiar enough with the Mac to know where your history is. Hopefully another Mac user can chime in.
You can download your preferred language version of Firefox 3.6.28 here:
http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all-older -
I am trying to upgrade my PC to iTunes to 10.6 version, and i get an error message that states the older version of Bonjour cxanot be removed contact your support group. Can anyone help.
Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from the following page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
To install the utility, doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file you downloaded.
Now run the utility ("Start > All Programs > Windows Install Clean Up"). In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any Bonjour entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another install. Does it go through this time? -
ITunes/Quicktime problem "The older version of Quicktime cannot be removed"
Whenever I try installing iTunes 7, I get the message "The older version of Quicktime cannot be removed." A similar problem with the same wording similarly cropped when I downloaded iTunes 6.
Source of the problem is a failed System Restore which left files corrupted and such, I've tried using ccCleaner to remove iTunes and Quicktime from the registry but it simply isn't there, as is the case when I use regedit in Run.
Add/Remove Programs doesn't work as well, when I click on uninstall for iTunes/iPod/Quicktime there just isn't any response or window that pops up
Any help?Add/Remove Programs doesn't work as well, when I click on uninstall for iTunes/iPod/Quicktime there just isn't any response or window that pops up
okay, let's try the technique from the following post. (it includes instructions on what to do if Add/Remove isn't working for a program.)
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=3366434
(the link in there to the itunes 7.0.1.8 installer now leads to a 7.0.2.16 installer. no cause for concern, use the 7.0.2.16.) -
Error message: The older version of iTunes cannot be removed. Contact your technical support gropu
When I try to update my tTunes store I get the message, "The older version of iTunes cannot be removed. Contact your technical support group."
(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
(2) Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
(4) In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any iTunes entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
(5) Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time? -
Got a message while down loading Itunes 10.4... couldn't remove older version of bonjour??
(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
(2) Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
(4) In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any Bonjour entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
(5) Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?
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