I still see Java 1.8 when I am doing java -version after downgrading to 1.7

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Rookie_Guy picture Rookie_Guy · Sep 4, 2015 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I downgraded java 1.7 from 1.8, but I still see 1.8 when I do java -version. I changed the path and also made JAVA_HOME changed for 1.7 as 

JAVA_HOME: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_79 
PATH:      C:\Program Files(x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_79\bin

For some reason I also have this in my path: C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath, which I believe keeps this 1.8 version. When I take off this from the path, I get this message: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\amd64\jvm.cfg. I don't know what's going on. Any suggestion would be very helpful.

Answer

Vivek Agrawal picture Vivek Agrawal · Feb 26, 2016

TRY DOING THE FOLLOWING:

Type "regedit" from startup menu. Take a back up if you are a novice.
Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->JavaSoft->Java Runtime Environment"
Double click on "CurrentVersion" on the right side of the panel
Change version to "1.7".

If you have "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath" in your path variable . Then open the
location and make sure the java.exe file points to respective 1.7 directory.

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