Adobe app munged JAVA_HOME on Windows

Subject: Adobe app munged JAVA_HOME on Windows
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 09:38:06 -0800

Adobe CS5 also requires a specific version of Java for OS X otherwise you
can't even run the programs. Installing a later Java SDK and opting to
"remove outdated versions" removed it and I had to reinstall the earlier
version just to run Photoshop again.

https://forums.adobe.com/message/6849608#6849608

-Tony

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','robert -at- lauriston -dot- com');>> wrote:

> A Java app wouldn't run today, when I checked the environment
> variables some Adobe app I installed and uninstalled apparently
> changed JAVA_HOME to a now-missing JRE that was in a CS5 ProgramData
> subdirectory.
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