Which made me realize it was a known bug and fortunately also came with a workaround:Ī successful test of the command javaws -viewer opened the Java Cache Viewer and the Java Control Panel from which I could easily check the update and version information.Įsther has been working in different roles and functions as an IT consultant ever since she finished her Masters degree in Computer Science in 1997. Luckily for me Google was kind enough to provide me with an answer as it lead me to Bug ID 6641731. I was running out of ideas for a solution. Nor did I discover it in the 32-bit Control Panel items.Įven trying to start the Java Control Panel manually through the jpicpl32.cpl command did not work, not even after a reboot, which might trigger a better loading of all the DLLs. So I figured I could always check the presence of the Java Control Panel in my Windows Control Panel, but unfortunately that icon was nowhere to be found.
I wanted to make sure it was properly installed (I turned off the systray icon with the SYSTRAY=0 and WEBSTARTICON=0 arguments) and could not verify the installation by checking the presence of the icon in the notification area (turned it off during installation). When I checked the system for a successful installation of the JRE, I could not discover the Control Panel anywhere. It was part of a scripted installation I was preparing for a Citrix XenApp 5 installation (prerequisite = JRE6U5). Here’s a quick note on an old mystery I faced after the installation of Java Runtime Engine 6 Update 5 on a Windows Server 2008 圆4 machine.