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I had lot of problems with the msi installers. For installing the next update the computers should have access to the old MSI installer in order to uninstall it.

I won't buy SSCM to do it. I'm installing/upgrading the Java on my company using GPO with a custom made vbs running the EXE installer. The JRE MSI give lot of problems with version which cannot be uninstalled because the old msi it's not accesible. On the 1.5 to 1.6 and 1.6 to 1.7 changes I used other script which tries to lauch the uninstall procedures of all the old versions of Java I want to uninstall. It worked good but if the new Java 8 installer has this option I want to know If I could use it on a silent way. As example of this last script this code it's for uninstall Java 7 Update 40 msiexec.exe /x {26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217040FF} /q /norestart Look on google for {26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217040FF} and you will see the other codes for other versions. If I don't found the parameter for do it I should pack another time a script for uninstall all the Java 7 version on each system.

If you run the new Java 8 installer interactively it detects old Java versions (v7) and it asks for remove it. If you run the Java 8 installer with silent option it don't deletes old versions. I don't see any option/parameter to delete older versions....

Hi, I had this problem due to a virus. The virus modified the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\load for start on the user session, and it modified the permissions of the parent key of the registry for not allow the modification of the values inside. How the user could not modify the Device value Windows doesn't allows to change the default printer. My fix was: - Start regedit as Administrator - look for the previous key on HKEY_USERS (if you use HKEY_CURRENT_USER you will be modifying the administrator key), each user it's show with his SID. For see the user SID you could run in a command line the command "wmic useraccount get name,sid" - Do a Right click on the Windows key and select Permissions. - Press Advanced button. - Remove all the permissions. - Click the inherit ... checkbox. - Click OK.