Friday, July 26, 2013

How to disable Java Updater Tray Icon in Windows

If you ask Java to disable the tray icon, sometimes it won't respect your wishes.  The issue is that the Administrator needs to disable it.  This what you do:

1) Start the command prompt as the Administrator
2) cd \Program Files\Java\jre6\bin
3) javacpl
4) Go to the Advanced Tab
5) Expand Miscellaneous
6) Uncheck the Place Java icon in system tracy
7) Right click the Java icon, and click on Cancel
8) Under Advanced | JRE Auto-Download, switch it to Never Auto-Download

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