<p>When viewing someone else's webpage containing an applet, how can I force Internet Explorer 6.0 to use a a particular JRE when I have several installed?</p>

[{'answer_id': 71329, 'author': 'BrezzaP', 'author_id': 11766, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11766', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>For the server-side solution (which your question was originally ambiguous about), <a href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/plugin/developer_guide/using_tags.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page at sun</a> lists one way to specify a JRE.  Specifically, </p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;OBJECT \n  classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"\n  width="200" height="200"&gt;\n  &lt;PARAM name="code" value="Applet1.class"&gt;\n&lt;/OBJECT&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>The classid attribute identifies which\n  version of Java Plug-in to use.</p>\n  \n  <p>Following is an alternative form of\n  the classid attribute:</p>\n\n<pre><code>classid="clsid:CAFEEFAC-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-ABCDEFFEDCBA"\n</code></pre>\n  \n  <p>In this form, "xxxx", "yyyy", and\n  "zzzz" are four-digit numbers that\n  identify the specific version of Java\n  Plug-in to be used. </p>\n  \n  <p>For example, to use Java Plug-in\n  version 1.5.0, you specify:</p>\n\n<pre><code>classid="clsid:CAFEEFAC-0015-0000-0000-ABCDEFFEDCBA"\n</code></pre>\n</blockquote>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71657, 'author': 'Stephen Denne', 'author_id': 11721, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11721', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Use the <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/deploymentToolkit.jsp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deployment Toolkit</a>\'s <a href="http://java.com/js/deployJava.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deployJava.js</a> (though this ensures a minimum version, rather than a specific version)</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 71717, 'author': 'Stephen Denne', 'author_id': 11721, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/11721', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>If you mean when you are not the person writing the web page, then you could disable the add ons you do not wish to use with the <a href="http://windowsxp.mvps.org/addons.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Manage Add-Ons</a> IE Options screen added in Win XP SP2</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 277661, 'author': 'Daniel Cassidy', 'author_id': 31662, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31662', 'pm_score': 6, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>First, disable the currently installed version of Java. To do this, go to <strong>Control Panel > Java > Advanced > Default Java for Browsers</strong> and uncheck <strong>Microsoft Internet Explorer</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>Next, enable the version of Java you want to use instead. To do this, go to (for example) <strong>C:\\Program Files\\Java\\<i>jre1.5.0_15</i>\\bin</strong> (where <strong>jre1.5.0_15</strong> is the version of Java you want to use), and run <strong>javacpl.exe</strong>. Go to <strong>Advanced > Default Java for Browsers</strong> and check <strong>Microsoft Internet Explorer</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>To get your old version of Java back you need to reverse these steps.</p>\n\n<p>Note that in older versions of Java, <strong>Default Java for Browsers</strong> is called <strong>&lt;APPLET&gt; Tag Support</strong> (but the effect is the same).</p>\n\n<p>The good thing about this method is that it doesn't affect other browsers, and doesn't affect the default system JRE.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 277693, 'author': 'Jack Leow', 'author_id': 31506, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31506', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I'd give all the responses here a try first. But I wanted to just throw in what I do, just in case these do not work for you.</p>\n\n<p>I've tried to solve the same problem you're having before, and in the end, what I decided on doing is to have only one JRE installed on my system at a given time. I do have about 10 different JDKs (1.3 through 1.6, and from various vendors - Sun, Oracle, IBM), since I do need it for development, but only one standalone JRE.</p>\n\n<p>This has worked for me on my Windows 2000 + IE 6 computer at home, as well as my Windows XP + Multiple IE computer at work.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 3090351, 'author': 'Kayhadrin', 'author_id': 104598, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/104598', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I have the same issue today and I concur with Jack Leow.\nBasically, on Windows XP, I had to go to Control Panel > Java and then:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Java tab</li>\n<li>Click on "View" button</li>\n<li>Enable only the JRE I want (i.e. JRE 1.5.x and keep 1.6.x disabled)</li>\n<li>Restart IE</li>\n<li>Load applet page in IE </li>\n<li>Et voila, it\'s loading the correct JRE version!</li>\n</ol>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3853297, 'author': 'Scott Bennett-McLeish', 'author_id': 1915, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1915', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>As has been mentioned here for JRE6 and JRE5, I will update for JRE1.4:</p>\n\n<p>You will need to run the <strong>jpicpl32.exe</strong> application in the jre/bin directory of your java installation (e.g. <strong>c:\\java\\jdk1.4.2_07\\jre\\bin\\jpicpl32.exe</strong>).</p>\n\n<p>This is an earlier version of the application mentioned in Daniel Cassidy's post.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 26525940, 'author': 'Srujan Bangaru', 'author_id': 1683903, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1683903', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can specify the family of JRE to be used.\n<a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/family-clsid-140615.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/family-clsid-140615.html</a></p>\n'}]
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