Force Internet Explorer to use a specific Java Runtime Environment install

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When viewing someone else s webpage containing an applet  how can I force Internet Explorer 6 0 to use a a particular JRE when I have several installed

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I d give all the responses here a try first  But I wanted to just throw in what I do  just in case these do not work for you   I ve tried to solve the same problem you re having before  and in the end  what I decided on doing is to have only one JRE installed on my system at a given time  I do have about 10 different JDKs  1 3 through 1 6  and from various vendors - Sun  Oracle  IBM   since I do need it for development  but only one standalone JRE   This has worked for me on my Windows 2000   IE 6 computer at home  as well as my Windows XP   Multiple IE computer at work

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If you mean when you are not the person writing the web page  then you could disable the add ons you do not wish to use with the Manage Add-Ons IE Options screen added in Win XP SP2

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I d give all the responses here a try first  But I wanted to just throw in what I do  just in case these do not work for you   I ve tried to solve the same problem you re having before  and in the end  what I decided on doing is to have only one JRE installed on my system at a given time  I do have about 10 different JDKs  1 3 through 1 6  and from various vendors - Sun  Oracle  IBM   since I do need it for development  but only one standalone JRE   This has worked for me on my Windows 2000   IE 6 computer at home  as well as my Windows XP   Multiple IE computer at work

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First  disable the currently installed version of Java  To do this  go to Control Panel   Java   Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer   Next  enable the version of Java you want to use instead  To do this  go to  for example  C  Program Files Java jre1 5 0 15 bin  where jre1 5 0 15 is the version of Java you want to use   and run javacpl exe  Go to Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and check Microsoft Internet Explorer   To get your old version of Java back you need to reverse these steps   Note that in older versions of Java  Default Java for Browsers is called  lt APPLET gt  Tag Support  but the effect is the same    The good thing about this method is that it doesn t affect other browsers  and doesn t affect the default system JRE

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For the server-side solution  which your question was originally ambiguous about   this page at sun lists one way to specify a JRE   Specifically     lt OBJECT    classid  clsid 8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93    width  200  height  200  gt     lt PARAM name  code  value  Applet1 class  gt   lt  OBJECT gt       The classid attribute identifies which   version of Java Plug-in to use       Following is an alternative form of   the classid attribute   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-ABCDEFFEDCBA        In this form   xxxx    yyyy   and    zzzz  are four-digit numbers that   identify the specific version of Java   Plug-in to be used        For example  to use Java Plug-in   version 1 5 0  you specify   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA

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I have the same issue today and I concur with Jack Leow  Basically  on Windows XP  I had to go to Control Panel   Java and then    Java tab Click on  View  button Enable only the JRE I want  i e  JRE 1 5 x and keep 1 6 x disabled  Restart IE Load applet page in IE  Et voila  it s loading the correct JRE version

User · Answer

First  disable the currently installed version of Java  To do this  go to Control Panel   Java   Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer   Next  enable the version of Java you want to use instead  To do this  go to  for example  C  Program Files Java jre1 5 0 15 bin  where jre1 5 0 15 is the version of Java you want to use   and run javacpl exe  Go to Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and check Microsoft Internet Explorer   To get your old version of Java back you need to reverse these steps   Note that in older versions of Java  Default Java for Browsers is called  lt APPLET gt  Tag Support  but the effect is the same    The good thing about this method is that it doesn t affect other browsers  and doesn t affect the default system JRE

User · Answer

First  disable the currently installed version of Java  To do this  go to Control Panel   Java   Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer   Next  enable the version of Java you want to use instead  To do this  go to  for example  C  Program Files Java jre1 5 0 15 bin  where jre1 5 0 15 is the version of Java you want to use   and run javacpl exe  Go to Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and check Microsoft Internet Explorer   To get your old version of Java back you need to reverse these steps   Note that in older versions of Java  Default Java for Browsers is called  lt APPLET gt  Tag Support  but the effect is the same    The good thing about this method is that it doesn t affect other browsers  and doesn t affect the default system JRE

User · Answer

If you mean when you are not the person writing the web page  then you could disable the add ons you do not wish to use with the Manage Add-Ons IE Options screen added in Win XP SP2

User · Answer

For the server-side solution  which your question was originally ambiguous about   this page at sun lists one way to specify a JRE   Specifically     lt OBJECT    classid  clsid 8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93    width  200  height  200  gt     lt PARAM name  code  value  Applet1 class  gt   lt  OBJECT gt       The classid attribute identifies which   version of Java Plug-in to use       Following is an alternative form of   the classid attribute   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-ABCDEFFEDCBA        In this form   xxxx    yyyy   and    zzzz  are four-digit numbers that   identify the specific version of Java   Plug-in to be used        For example  to use Java Plug-in   version 1 5 0  you specify   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA

User · Answer

I d give all the responses here a try first  But I wanted to just throw in what I do  just in case these do not work for you   I ve tried to solve the same problem you re having before  and in the end  what I decided on doing is to have only one JRE installed on my system at a given time  I do have about 10 different JDKs  1 3 through 1 6  and from various vendors - Sun  Oracle  IBM   since I do need it for development  but only one standalone JRE   This has worked for me on my Windows 2000   IE 6 computer at home  as well as my Windows XP   Multiple IE computer at work

User · Answer

As has been mentioned here for JRE6 and JRE5  I will update for JRE1 4   You will need to run the jpicpl32 exe application in the jre bin directory of your java installation  e g  c  java jdk1 4 2 07 jre bin jpicpl32 exe    This is an earlier version of the application mentioned in Daniel Cassidy s post

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Use the deployment Toolkit s deployJava js  though this ensures a minimum version  rather than a specific version

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If you mean when you are not the person writing the web page  then you could disable the add ons you do not wish to use with the Manage Add-Ons IE Options screen added in Win XP SP2

User · Answer

If you mean when you are not the person writing the web page  then you could disable the add ons you do not wish to use with the Manage Add-Ons IE Options screen added in Win XP SP2

User · Answer

Use the deployment Toolkit s deployJava js  though this ensures a minimum version  rather than a specific version

User · Answer

You can specify the family of JRE to be used  http   www oracle com technetwork java javase family-clsid-140615 html

User · Answer

For the server-side solution  which your question was originally ambiguous about   this page at sun lists one way to specify a JRE   Specifically     lt OBJECT    classid  clsid 8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93    width  200  height  200  gt     lt PARAM name  code  value  Applet1 class  gt   lt  OBJECT gt       The classid attribute identifies which   version of Java Plug-in to use       Following is an alternative form of   the classid attribute   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-ABCDEFFEDCBA        In this form   xxxx    yyyy   and    zzzz  are four-digit numbers that   identify the specific version of Java   Plug-in to be used        For example  to use Java Plug-in   version 1 5 0  you specify   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA

User · Answer

I have the same issue today and I concur with Jack Leow  Basically  on Windows XP  I had to go to Control Panel   Java and then    Java tab Click on  View  button Enable only the JRE I want  i e  JRE 1 5 x and keep 1 6 x disabled  Restart IE Load applet page in IE  Et voila  it s loading the correct JRE version

User · Answer

First  disable the currently installed version of Java  To do this  go to Control Panel   Java   Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and uncheck Microsoft Internet Explorer   Next  enable the version of Java you want to use instead  To do this  go to  for example  C  Program Files Java jre1 5 0 15 bin  where jre1 5 0 15 is the version of Java you want to use   and run javacpl exe  Go to Advanced   Default Java for Browsers and check Microsoft Internet Explorer   To get your old version of Java back you need to reverse these steps   Note that in older versions of Java  Default Java for Browsers is called  lt APPLET gt  Tag Support  but the effect is the same    The good thing about this method is that it doesn t affect other browsers  and doesn t affect the default system JRE

User · Answer

I d give all the responses here a try first  But I wanted to just throw in what I do  just in case these do not work for you   I ve tried to solve the same problem you re having before  and in the end  what I decided on doing is to have only one JRE installed on my system at a given time  I do have about 10 different JDKs  1 3 through 1 6  and from various vendors - Sun  Oracle  IBM   since I do need it for development  but only one standalone JRE   This has worked for me on my Windows 2000   IE 6 computer at home  as well as my Windows XP   Multiple IE computer at work

User · Answer

Use the deployment Toolkit s deployJava js  though this ensures a minimum version  rather than a specific version

User · Answer

For the server-side solution  which your question was originally ambiguous about   this page at sun lists one way to specify a JRE   Specifically     lt OBJECT    classid  clsid 8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93    width  200  height  200  gt     lt PARAM name  code  value  Applet1 class  gt   lt  OBJECT gt       The classid attribute identifies which   version of Java Plug-in to use       Following is an alternative form of   the classid attribute   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-ABCDEFFEDCBA        In this form   xxxx    yyyy   and    zzzz  are four-digit numbers that   identify the specific version of Java   Plug-in to be used        For example  to use Java Plug-in   version 1 5 0  you specify   classid  clsid CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA

User · Answer

Use the deployment Toolkit s deployJava js  though this ensures a minimum version  rather than a specific version

User · Answer

You can specify the family of JRE to be used  http   www oracle com technetwork java javase family-clsid-140615 html

User · Answer

As has been mentioned here for JRE6 and JRE5  I will update for JRE1 4   You will need to run the jpicpl32 exe application in the jre bin directory of your java installation  e g  c  java jdk1 4 2 07 jre bin jpicpl32 exe    This is an earlier version of the application mentioned in Daniel Cassidy s post

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