Minimwatch needs Java?

[DavidHB]

Sorry. It's worse than I thought. I've only just installed 1709, and am just learning what more Microsoft has done to make our lives a misery.

The new dialog will not fix the problem. Fortunately, the old one is hidden, rather than removed. Do Win key + X to get the power menu, then select Command Prompt (Admin). Enter the command

control /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms /page pageFileAssoc

and you will get the old dialog, with the Change Program button you need to specify javaw.exe. Noe that it needs to be javaw.exe, rather than java.exe, which is also present in the /bin folder.

I hope this works now.

David

P.S. I now see that Simon has come in with the link to Jarfix, which is the better option. I'm leaving this post however, for the benefit of anyone who falls foul of the 1709 'improvement' in some other way.