New Post: HOW TO: Deploy Java 8 (while uninstalling previous versions)

nebulight wrote:

Thanks for the great walkthrough. This worked perfect for me to uninstall all previous versions and install version 8 update 40. However I just followed this again for update 45 and updated my batch script to include the GUID for Update 40 for removal. However it looks like since this was installed through windows update it doesn't have a GUID in the registry for uninstall. What would be the best method for removing the previous install of Java that was install through WSUS Package Publisher?

Thanks.

The GUID should stay the same if you are using the original MSI.
You can use MSI reader to find the one from 8u40.

Also I needed to find ones for version 6 and came a cross this great page. - http://www.74k.org/java-uninstall-remove-guids-strings