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With either choice, the installer may ask you to reboot your computer 3. When done with the installation, you can delete the downloaded file to recover disk space. Then follow the instructions the installer provides.

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Windows Offline Installation - Run the file downloaded in step 1 by double-clicking on the installer's icon. (The letters ' iftw' mean 'install from the web'.)ī.

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This option starts the installation process by downloading and executing the file jre-1_6_0_-windows-i586-iftw.exe, which prompts you through the steps to download and install only the features you request.

Open - This starts a small program which then prompts you for more information about what you want to install.

Windows Online Installation - After clicking the 'Download' link for the JRE, a dialog box pops up - choose the following option: The download page provides the following two choices of installation. You must have administrative permissions in order to install the Java SE Runtime Environment on Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. This file contains everything needed to install the Java SE Runtime Environment, including the installer and character conversion classes and support for locales other than the US English locale. Check that you have downloaded the entire file by comparing the size of the file you downloaded with the expected size shown on the download page:

Save - This saves the downloaded file without installing it.

If choosing 'Windows Offline Installation', download and check the download file sizeĪfter clicking the JRE 'Download' link for the 'Windows Offline Installation' a dialog box pops up - choose the following option:

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