^What the title says. Starting with the release of JRE 6 Update 23, I have been unable to install new versions of JRE. Because Update 23 didn't include any security fixes, I just left it at Update 22 and hoped that Update 24 would install. It won't. Every time I launch the installer, its process appears in Task Manager for several seconds and then disappears. During that time, WerFault.exe (Windows Error Reporting) also shows up. So, somehow, the JRE installer keeps crashing. Some notes and things I have tried:
■Uninstalling JRE completely and reinstalling. Still no go. The installers for Updates 23 and 24 crash, but the installers for Updates 22 and earlier work perfectly.
■Disabling all background processes and restarting. I was afraid that my AV or some other program might be interfering, but disabling every background process didn't help.
■Installing the pre-release of JRE 6 Update 25. It didn't work.
■Installing the pre-release of JRE 7. This time, the installer worked, but JRE 7 didn't load one of the applications I need Java for properly...
■Installing JRE 64-bit. This DID work. I am able to install the 64-bit versions of JRE 6 Updates 23 and higher without a hitch. Only the installers for the 32-bit versions crash.
■Creating a new user account. Same thing happened.
■This problem is happening to both of my PCs, so I'm thinking it has to be some program or tweak I've done on both computers. I just can't figure out what it is!
Any ideas? I'm really hoping to avoid a reinstall of Windows.
■Uninstalling JRE completely and reinstalling. Still no go. The installers for Updates 23 and 24 crash, but the installers for Updates 22 and earlier work perfectly.
■Disabling all background processes and restarting. I was afraid that my AV or some other program might be interfering, but disabling every background process didn't help.
■Installing the pre-release of JRE 6 Update 25. It didn't work.
■Installing the pre-release of JRE 7. This time, the installer worked, but JRE 7 didn't load one of the applications I need Java for properly...
■Installing JRE 64-bit. This DID work. I am able to install the 64-bit versions of JRE 6 Updates 23 and higher without a hitch. Only the installers for the 32-bit versions crash.
■Creating a new user account. Same thing happened.
■This problem is happening to both of my PCs, so I'm thinking it has to be some program or tweak I've done on both computers. I just can't figure out what it is!
Any ideas? I'm really hoping to avoid a reinstall of Windows.