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I want to try the newest Windows 8 64-bit. I installed it successfully. I tried to install one trading application called Interactive Brokers Trading Station which requires at least jre-1.4.

I went to the Oracle website to download the latest release. I tried 1.6 and even 1.7, however it seems Windows 8 could not link the environment to the software, whichs keep complaining about the absence of Java.

I tried to change the compatibility settings of the executable, which didn't do anything. Can you give me any hints?

surfasb
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Wenhao.SHE
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Turns out you have to install both java 32 and 64 bit since lot of application simply base on 32bit as default without 64bit version.

Simon Sheehan
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Wenhao.SHE
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See if the path variable helps to solve your problem

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-windows.html

r0ast3d
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win8 IE 10. IE runs 64 bit but the tabs are 32 by default so against intuition you have to download and install 32 bit JRE. To install the 64 bit JRE you have to enable protected mode, but that breaks lots of other stuff and still doesn't actually run 64 bit java :(

Captain
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Installing both 32 & 64 bit did not help me at all, I still getting general exception errors. I am guessing we need to wait for official support for Windows 8 in 7 build 10 I think if I am not mistaken.

Jon
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