Cannot use Java 7 installation if Java 8 is installed

Question

I normally still use Java 7 for all my coding projects (it\'s a company \"politics\" issue), but I installed Java 8 for one third-party project I am contributing to. Now, it see

Answer 1

2 Steps

1

Change registry key **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion** to point to 1.7

2

Copy java.exe,javaw.exe and javaws.exe from your java 1.7 version to Windows\System32 folder (Since the corresponding files of java 1.8 are already there, you might have to overwrite with admin permissions)

3

(OOps actually not required 3rd step ) Open a new cmd window and check java -version