{"id":2231,"date":"2022-08-30T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/changing-default-java-runtime-environment-from-1-8-to-1-7-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:23:08","slug":"changing-default-java-runtime-environment-from-1-8-to-1-7-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/30\/changing-default-java-runtime-environment-from-1-8-to-1-7-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing default Java Runtime Environment from 1.8 to 1.7-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently trying to change the default JRE on my computer from 8 to 7.<\/p>\n<p>I was attempting to fix a glitch involving the game Minecraft by updating to the JRE8 beta build, but it seems like that installer was corrupted and stopped midway before crashing. Now, whenever I try to launch any Java related program, it keeps on pointing to JRE8 even though it&#8217;s installed. I attempted to reinstall it but the launcher doesn&#8217;t seem to launch anymore even after I redownloaded it and tried several other builds.<\/p>\n<p>I applied a temporary band-aid fix by either copying my JRE7 folder, pasting it, and renaming it to JRE8. Or I can also go into the registry and change the 1.8.0 registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\JavaSoft\\Java Runtime Environment\\1.8.0) to point to the JRE7 folder instead of the JRE8 folder. If none of these two &#8220;fixes&#8221; are applied, I get a Launch4j error when I attempt to launch anything Java related:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.stack.imgur.com\/m70MB.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How can I fix this?<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-01-05 09:21:05. <\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently trying to change the default JRE on my computer from 8 to 7. I was attempting to fix a glitch involving the game Minecraft by updating to the JRE8 beta build, but it seems like that installer was corrupted and stopped midway before crashing. Now, whenever I try to launch any Java related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}