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Subject:Re: Adobe app munged JAVA_HOME on Windows From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:14:04 -0800
Lots of applications require specific JVMs. That doesn't mean they
need to modify JAVA_HOME.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Adobe CS5 also requires a specific version of Java for OS X otherwise you
> can't even run the programs. Installing a later Java SDK and opting to
> "remove outdated versions" removed it and I had to reinstall the earlier
> version just to run Photoshop again.
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