How do I set the default Java installation/runtime (Windows)?

Question

I\'m in the situation where I\'ve installed the JDK, but I can\'t run applets in browsers (I may not have installed the JRE).

However, when I install the JRE, it clo

Answer 1

Stacked by this issue and have resolved it in 2020, in Windows 10. I'm using Java 8 RE and 14.1 JDK and it worked well until Eclipse upgrade to version 2020-09. After that I can't run Eclipse because it needed to use Java 11 or newer and it found only 8 version. It was because of order of environment variables of "Path":

I suppose C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath is path to link to installed JRE exe files (in my case Java 8) and the issue was resolved by move down this link after %JAVA_HOME%, what leads to Java 14.1/bin folder.

It seems that order of environment variables affects order of searched folders while executable file is requested. Thanks for your comment or better explanation.