[Therendil]

I don't recall which thread it was in, but we chewed on this at some length. I did find that mine was throwing the exception even with no rogue java processes running. The updater always worked, so I mostly ignore it.

Manually updating java, or resetting the shortcuts seems to fix the issue pretty reliably.

Ultimately, the problem is java. I've seen stupid architecture over the years, but nothing tops java's decision to put working executables in system temporary folders. I learned this the first time I ran CCleaner to remove temporary files and blew away java's "deployment cache." That's another thought: If you run a utility to clean out temporary files, you *must* exclude java.

-= Therendil =-