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Question

Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:

A Java Runt

Answer 1

I had this problem too on a win7 machine. I wanted to update the jre with a jdk. So i deleted the jre folder and downloaded and unzipped the new jdk. The issue was i manually deleted the jre folder, when instead i should've uninstalled it. This leaves a bunch of registry entries that still point to the old jre. Somehow eclipse still wants to use the old jre. I couldn't uninstall the old java vm, i kept getting this error:

Error 1723. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor

So i had to use this MS utility to fix the uninstall:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2438651/

Then i had to install again the vm. I installed to the same location the original one was at, to avoid losing another hour! After that eclipse started correctly.

Julio