I noticed the same behavior with older versions of Java. I never looked in to it extensively, but then I heard it talked about about in a video I was watching about PDQ Deploy. They mentioned it didn't work on older versions, but it had been fixed in a recent build. This video of theirs goes over a registry fix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZC2DMXRJI On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Burke, John <[email protected]>wrote: > had to deploy older version of java for win7 unfortuantly. > > I got looking at it and the dang thing doesn't seem support the switches > to stop the autoupdate. I even hacked aht the MSI and still no go. > > wondering what you folks did for this version? > > I've got a registry file that will force some stuff but i'm can't help but > think i'm being foolish or blind. It's been a while since i had the > nightmare of dealing with java....deployments. >
