Re: SUN jre broke registry

try this, and if I'm wrong search for othe registry cleaning tools from sun
java: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/5000041000.xml


"Carsten" <carsten.martens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I have a really annoying problem.
>
> I installed the SUN j2ee appserver incl jdk and jre for evaluation
> purposes (playing around). Then an update to jre 1.5.06 was suggested.
> Did that.
> Was too lazy do to "custom install" so the stupid installer installed
> that update in a different jre folder. Didn't want several different
> jre's flying around. So uninstalled and reinstalled the update. Then
> the jre didn't work even though everything seemed to be in good order,
> vars, paths, plugins u name it. Didn't suspect anything critical at
> that stage. So uninstalled everything, appserver, jdk, jre, update.
> Complete cleanup (or so I thought). Reinstalled evrything, but it's
> still not working.
> Now I started to wonder and had a closer look what the story was.
> Problems seems to be that the SUN installer messed up the registry. To
> be more precise the keys HKCR ".jar", ".jnlp", "jarfile", "JavaPlugin"
> and "JavaPlugin.150_06", maybe a few others, are completely
> unaccessible. They appear to be there but they cannot be deleted,
> overwritten or modified in any shape or form. When I try to set
> properties the system says I haven't permissions to view them but I can
> set them (now here's some logic). Ok, tried that. Regedit then shows no
> owners. not even "CREATOR" or "SYSTEM". But then again the system says
> I can't view them anyway. No matter what I try here (means assigning
> user objects, modify access rights) it gives either "error" or "acces
> denied". Needless to say the SUN installer couldnt fix it either.
> Tried a few third party registry tools, no joy. Tried the registry api
> functions like "RegistryOpenEx" or "RegistryDelete" directly from a
> small c program, no joy. Gives error 5 "access denied".
>
> Is there any hope I wonder? Any chance to get rid of these keys?
>
> Because as it stands I will never have java on this box again unless
> I'm willing to fry the entire installation. I mean it might not have
> been very clever what I did to begin with, but how can the system allow
> registry api calls that render keys useless? And what the heck was that
> SUN installer "thinking".
>
> cheers
>
> Carsten
>


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