As far as I can tell, there has not been any manual modifications of file associations on both Windows machines, i.e. only bulk-standard JDK / JRE (un)installations have ever been performed.
Thanks for the pointers - I will have a look at the JIRA issue. Although I confirm that this has nothing to do with JavaFX? Alex. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Igor Nekrestyanov <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like the same issue reported in JavaFX context: > http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-21194 > > At this point we are not clear how this can happen (except user creating > manual association at some point) > and we only seen few reports so far. > > Please follow troubleshooting steps there to provide us more information. > In particular validate you do not have .jar association settings in the HKCU > branch. > > Please add details to the same JIRA issue, > > -igor > > > On 5/2/12 10:13 AM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I have tried JDK 7u4 (32/64-bit) and JRE 7u4 (32-bit), on a Win7 (x64) >> box and a WinXP (32-bit) box, and after installation all .jar >> association has been removed. >> >> So now I cannot double-click any JAR files in Windows Explorer to run >> them. I previously had 7u2 on the Win7 box and 6u31 on the WinXP box, >> and they were working okay. >> >> This is of course rather annoying - I would like to know if this is >> just me or have I missed something important? >> >> >> Alex. > >
