I’ve used the JRE 1.6.20 fixlet from Windows Update, which has worked a treat in our QA section of Big Fix. What I would like to do now is to disable JRE going out to the Internet.
Looking at Task Manager and a look through search engines there are two processes that I need to get rid of
jqs.exe
jsched.exe
Has anyone had an experience of deleting both of these? At the moment our estate has mutiple versions of JRE, so I want to target the relevance at all users regardless of what version of Java there is.
This is the fixlet I am using from the site - Updates for Windows
Java Runtime Environment 6 Update 20 Available (JRE 6 Installed)
Because we have multiple version of JRE across the estate, we would like to disable every Java install requesting updates, so that we have complete control. Hence my I am creating the package. To my knowledge this JRE package that BFix have created doesnt disable updates as the reg key is set to 1 to update.
That fixlet’s primary purpose is to install JRE 6 update 20, and stopping the update service is actually only done temporarily so that they don’t step on each other. I’m actually thinking of these two:
They toggle the registry flag that tells java update service not to run. I don’t think they’ll work if you’ve got a 32 bit Java on a 64 bit platform, there’s a bug in for that.
here is a possible solution: these two are “tasks”, not fixlets in Updates for Windows Application site. when you do control-f, you need to click on the Tasks tab.