You can click on Search present on taskbar or press Ctrl + Q.
Search "Configure Java" and click on it.
That should open the Java Control Panel.
You can click on Search present on taskbar or press Ctrl + Q.
Search "Configure Java" and click on it.
That should open the Java Control Panel.
Right-click on the Start button and select the Control Panel option. In the Windows Control Panel, click on Programs. Click on the Java icon to open the Java Control Panel.
Java control panel is suddenly gone from computer'
Can't find Java control panel
Cannot uninstall or update Java. Blank page icon in control panel. Windows 11 home.
Java not opening in Control panel
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I downloaded and installed Java to help a friend test a program (a version of the Shimeji desktop companion) they were working on.
As expected, the program did not launch before installing Java. After I installed Java, it worked perfectly. This should demonstrate I did install Java and it is currently in the machine.
After completing the test I wish to remove Java as I am not using it. However, I cannot locate it anywhere. The install wizard, which can be run to uninstall Java, says "no Java installation is detected on this system" when propted to remove Java. I cannot locate any Java folder in C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files(x86). I cannot locate the Java Control Panel anywhere. For all intents and purposes, it seems like Java is not installed, except that it is because I can still run the program my friend is making. I am running Windows 11 Home.
Thanks in advance to anyone who might read this and help out
Is there a program ANY WHERE that will replace Java? I have nothing but problems with it ... I thot it was an Oracle problem but did Microsoft purchase it. My problem is that I'm OLD and cannot concentrate on a billion instructions, especially not as confusing as the instructions for Java AND it would help if the java updates would work ... everything on my computer works flawlessly, except Java. I'll pay someone to get it out of my computer and install a program that WORKS ... plus Java is full of bugs ... and the updates don;t work so it is destroying my security. Help Mr. Wizard please make EVIL MICROSOFT go away and bring NICE Microsoft, back when it worked ...
Sorry that didn't work for you. Have you tried to find Java manually by searching in Explorer for "Java" at the "C:\ " level, e.g., open Explorer, click on your C:\ drive and entering "Java" in the search dialog box? It seems that you must have loaded it in a different folder than Program Files (x86)\Java. Hope you have better luck taking this approach.
When I go to the control panel, I click programs and when I click Java, it says application not found. Please help. the reason I wanted it was because I needed to update my java version and when I go to the command prompt and run java --version , it shows the un-changed version from before I downloaded it from the Oracle website. I don't really know anything about this stuff and it really confuses me. I could open it before this happened too, and I did the JAVA_HOME thing but it didn't seem to do anything. When I went to open the panel again, it gave me the error.
Issue: Cannot update or uninstall java, current version may be broken.
Windows version: 11 home version 23H2
Current Java version: 17.0.11+7-LTS-207
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Steps taken: (bolding for skimmers)
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Need to open a jar file. Jar file has a blank page icon. Double click to open, asks which program I'd like to run it with, defaults on java with a window icon. Nothing happens.
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When I say nothing, I mean nothing. No window pops up, computer doesn't stutter, just nothing.
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Figure updating java is the issue, so I download latest version installer, "jre-8u461-windows-x64.exe", I run it, asks for admin rights, I click yes, nothing happens.
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Check current version with windows CMD terminal "java -version" and it lists 17.0.11+7-LTS-207.
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Downloaded the dev kit, "jdk-24_windows-x64_bin.exe", run, asks for admin rights, I click yes, nothing happens.
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Try again, but by right clicking to run as administrator, same results.
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Download java uninstaller "JavaUninstallTool.exe", same results.
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Restart computer, same results.
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Go to control panel, Java option has a blank page icon. Try opening a window pops up titled "All control panel items" with text "Application not found" with just an "ok" button.
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Googled the problem, some list a slash problem but didn't list how to diagnose or resolve the problem.
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Came here, use the search to look within techsupport, best I could find was this, but his results were a bit different (a window pops up for a second after trying to launch a jar file) and I don't like jamming things into terminal without knowing what they are.
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I made a post here that didn't get any traction (I blame putting minecraft in the title.) I have since deleted that post as to avoid any confusion.
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I went to r/javahelp and they would not help me (Definitely because I put minecraft in the title, they told me so.)
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I went to r/minecraft and they have responded but so far it hasn't been very helpful. I figured while I see if that might be fruitful, I'd try and reformat my post here without. (Link to post)
Sorry for withholding that this issue is related to minecraft. People tend to see minecraft and immediately go to "Oh, so this is a child." I am a 38 year old man, and this problem is well outside of a minecraft problem. This is potentially a huge security risk and my only current course of action is at the very least a soft reformat. I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.
Alternate method of launching Java Control Panel:
Click Windows Start button.
In the Start Search box, type:
Windows 32-bit OS:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javacpl.exe**Windows 64-bit OS:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\javacpl.exe**
Ref: Docs
If you really don't have shortcut to "Configure Java" in the menu start, then run directly this Java Panel by accessing C:\Program Files\Java\jreJAVA_VERSION\bin\javacpl.exe or C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jreJAVA_VERSION\bin\javacpl.exe
If you only have jdk installed, then C:\Program Files\Java\jdkJAVA_VERSION\jre\bin\javacpl.exe
The only solution that I have come up with in a similar situation: to uninstall & re-install Java.
It's possible that this issue has something to do with what happens when Java update loads a new version to your system. I am saying this because Java by default tends to install itself into directories where the directory name has the version number. So a change in version number => changes the installation directory => may have an effect on some paths were system expects to find Java.
I am not sure if this is the cause however but so as to remove that possibility, when I re-installed Java I created a custom directory C:\Program Files\Java\JDK (this was the 64-bit version; a 32-bit version should have been placed in C:\Program Files (x86)) and directed the installer to put everything in that directory (instead of its default which would have been something like: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk_1.8.0.66).
If you are installing just the JRE then the custom path could be something like C:\Program Files\Java\JRE (instead of the default C:\Program Files\Java\jre8).
When you uninstall Java, make sure that:
- The Java directories (in either
C:\Program Files (x86)\JavaorC:\Program Files\Java) are actually deleted by the uninstaller. If not, it's better to delete them manually (since you will be re-installing them anyway, this should be fine). - Any environment variables (e.g. JAVA_HOME, PATH, etc) that refer to the old location actually point to the new location
I had the same problem. Just copied javacpl.cpl from C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_92\bin\javacpl.cpl to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\. Next time I opened the control panel the Java applet was visible again.
I'm trying to open the java control panel from the windows control panel. I'm trying to make it to where java is allowed to use more than 2048mb of my ram so Minecraft can run better. My problem is when I open the control panel I can't find the java applet to open it. even if I try to search java on the windows search bar it doesn't come up. It's as if I don't even have java installed. The only place it shows up is when I go into settings and look at my apps it says I have it installed. I've tried redownloading it and tried to open the control panel via the windows terminal but that didn't work either, It just says "Could not open virtual machine". (1.12.2 btw not that it really matters for this instance)
- Right-click the Start button and choose "Control Panel".
- In the "Search Control Panel" box, type "Java".
- It should bring up a match entitled "Java (XX-bit)" (where XX is the bit-level of the Java install)
- Double-click that icon to open the Java Control Panel.
To locate the Java Control panel, simply type Configure Java in the search bar on the side.
Here are two links to downloading the Java JRE in case you need to download it again. Link 1 Link 2