Seems unnecessarily obtuse to me.

I uninstalled Java. There were two on my machine. Version 7 update 10 and update 7. I uninstalled both. No problems so far unless you count a very slow page loading, sometimes as long as 25 minutes. This web connect sucks big time. But its a hotspot so I guess I gotta take the good with the bad. lol

I just got an update notice about a new version of Java. Its called jucheck.exe I don't know what it is but I closed it. Any thoughts

Thank you Doc.

The experts say it still has bugs. I won't be taking Java back any time soon.

apparently i missed even the previous update (u10)  

for those who use java for whatever desktop applications (but not for browser), apparently u10 had a quick tickbox to disable java for browser. which is useful because previous to that, it's a pain to try to disable it from java control panel. the IE box was always ticked even if it's disabled.

which is a bit odd, because that's not supposed to happen since some version of java 6 or maybe 5 (before that, every bloody version of java is kept.. but since whichever update it was, you only have 1 version. that is, 1 version of 32 bit and 1 version of 64 bit if you have both installed)

and if you have both 32bit and 64bit installed... fun because windows control panel is too stupid to realise 32bit java and 64 bit java are not quite the same thing and shows only 1 icon. thus you have to dig through the correct file folder to change settings on both of them. not to mention autoupdate for 32 bit doesn't work when you have 64bit installed... (64bit doesn't have autoupdate)

very strange.. because they (both sun and oracle) deliberately don't do autoupdate for 64bit java. (unless you mean there's some sort of email notice....)

remember... just because your os is 64bit doesn't mean your java is 64bit. in fact... most browsers aren't even 64bit and won't be able to use 64bit java plugins anyway.

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and i don't mean installer packages..

back when, your java folder will have a load of subfolders, 1 for each update. crazy stuff. something about keeping backward compatibility or some such..

 I get a popup when Java says there's an update, no email. I get emails from CCleaner and Glary Utilities and FF, all from cnet which I try to stay away from because of all the bloat they tack onto stuff. When I do update anything I go to the website and dl from there.