So, I recently reinstalled Windows 8.1 and I've been having nothing but trouble ever since. I don't want to "upgrade" back to Windows 7, I like Windows 8 the way it is, but I might turn back as a last resort. I'm trying to install Java so I can play Minecraft. When I start the game from the exe, it gives me this error: "This application requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.60"
So, naturally, I go to download Java. I run the installer, it "finishes successfully", I re-open Minecraft and I get the same message. I look in the Java folders at Program Files x86 and Program Files, there's nothing in there but a "core.zip" and "patchjre.exe". I've installed both x86 and x64 bit versions, and uninstalled and repeated multiple times. I'm running the installers as Admin, I've turned off Anitivirus and Firewalls, I'm using a 64bit OS, Windows 8.1. Even after installing Java for the 20th time today, there is no Java Control Panel within Windows, there are no Java files to speak of in the Windows folder ( system32 and otherwise).
It's like it's "installed" but there's nothing anywhere. I had a similar issue before when I was trying to install a Sony Vegas Pro trial. The installer threw some files in a temp folder, they disappeared at the end of the installation and no files were written anywhere, but it said it "completed successfully." Any ideas? I could have installed Ubuntu and had Minecraft running by now...
So, naturally, I go to download Java. I run the installer, it "finishes successfully", I re-open Minecraft and I get the same message. I look in the Java folders at Program Files x86 and Program Files, there's nothing in there but a "core.zip" and "patchjre.exe". I've installed both x86 and x64 bit versions, and uninstalled and repeated multiple times. I'm running the installers as Admin, I've turned off Anitivirus and Firewalls, I'm using a 64bit OS, Windows 8.1. Even after installing Java for the 20th time today, there is no Java Control Panel within Windows, there are no Java files to speak of in the Windows folder ( system32 and otherwise).
It's like it's "installed" but there's nothing anywhere. I had a similar issue before when I was trying to install a Sony Vegas Pro trial. The installer threw some files in a temp folder, they disappeared at the end of the installation and no files were written anywhere, but it said it "completed successfully." Any ideas? I could have installed Ubuntu and had Minecraft running by now...