• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

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Java is used by many of the programs we run. I noticed in my notebook WinXP software add-removes programs file that I numerous J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 updates, 1 through 9. Since each Java update is about 145 MB this takes up quite a bit of disk space. Question is, will the most recent update Java SE Runtime Environment 6 update 1 supersede the previous updates? That is, can I delete the others and save a large amount of hard drive space, or 7 x 145 MB?
 
Mine only has:

2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 6
J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 11
Java(TM) 6 Update 3
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1

I wonder if it would be prudent to uninstall all of these and just reinstall the latest version of Java???
 
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I think that's just a 'reporting error' by Java's installer - if you want to be safe, just remove them all and then just install the very latest.
 
I think that's just a 'reporting error' by Java's installer - if you want to be safe, just remove them all and then just install the very latest.
Ok I did and left the latest which was already in the system. Seems to work fine and I have more space.

Thanks all for the help
 
And thanks for asking this question, Gene--I had been noting the large files in the various versions when cleaning up my hard drive. Now I can get rid of the previous versions.
 
Yes, you guys are correct in that removing the other Java updates will not affect the latest install. You can actually uninstall the latest version and it will go back to the previous version you have installed on your computer. But if the current version is running fine, then I would delete the older updates too since they do take up a lot of space.
 
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