Re: Adobe app munged JAVA_HOME on Windows

Subject: Re: Adobe app munged JAVA_HOME on Windows
From: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 15:37:34 -0800

That's very bad program behavior. A couple years ago I installed an evaluation copy of Adobe FrameMaker 10, and it uninstalled my very old (but legal and still useful) version of Adobe Acrobat Pro. It did this without asking me or mentioning it. Bizarre.

Mark

On 1/7/2015 2:21 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

A Java app wouldn't run today, when I checked the environment
variables some Adobe app I installed and uninstalled apparently
changed JAVA_HOME to a now-missing JRE that was in a CS5 ProgramData
subdirectory.


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