Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Java Control Panel Issue

Java Control Panel for Java 6 64-bit or below looks like:

My machine had Java 6 64-bit as default running on Windows 7 64-bit. So when the Java Control Panel is opened from Control Panel -> Programs -> Java; it looks like above.
Java Control Panel for Java 7 32-bit looks like:

But I also had Java 7 which browser plugins were using and I wanted to Security Exception to the Site Lists and I was expecting above interface for Security Tab. I later figured out that it was because of multiple Java versions. Eventually I found that my 64-bit Java was installed in "Program Files" while 32-bit Java was installed in "Program Files (x86)". My browser being 32-bit was using 32-bit Java. So, I opened above Control Panel by running "Program Files (x86) -> java -> jre7 -> bin -> javacpl.exe" file.