hi i just got a new laptop and tried to download and run osbot on it and every time after i download it, it tries to extract it because it is a jar file however none of the programs can detect it/extract it. What am i doing wrong or what program am i missing to fix this? any help would be appreciated

right click the osbot.jar file, do you see "open"?

 

Edited July 28, 201411 yr by The Hero of Time

i do but whenever i open it, it take me to unzip it, this never happened on my computer either lol.. and i just installed windows 8.1 so maybe that had affected this?

Wait do you have java installed ? Since it's a new computer there's the possibility that it's not there.

When having it installed, right click the jar and choose "open with > java"

Tell me if this worked please.

Go to control panel -> programs

 

look if you have java, if it's java version 8, download java 7 update 60 or Lower

 

if you do have it installed, what does it open with? winrar?

 

 

You should get this. DO NOT BROWE FOR JAVA.EXE AND OPEN IT WITH THAT. it will result in it opening with command prompt and it is useless. uninstall and install java, or post here if nothing worked at all

i do have java version 7 update 65, do i have to uninstall it and search for an earlier version?

oh and had winrar and mzip opening it with by default

i do have java version 7 update 65, do i have to uninstall it and search for an earlier version?

oh and had winrar and mzip opening it with by default

click open with, then do you see java platform?

 

if you do not, click choose default program..

 

and click java there

 

Go to control panel -> programs

 

look if you have java, if it's java version 8, download java 7 update 60 or Lower

 

if you do have it installed, what does it open with? winrar?

 

 

You should get this. DO NOT BROWE FOR JAVA.EXE AND OPEN IT WITH THAT. it will result in it opening with command prompt and it is useless. uninstall and install java, or post here if nothing worked at all

 

Since when did you get helpful?

okay managed to get it to work by uninstalling java and getting an older version installed. thank you very much for the help everyone , it is very much appreciated

okay managed to get it to work by uninstalling java and getting an older version installed. thank you very much for the help everyone , it is very much appreciated

No problem ;)

Since when did you get helpful?

The first 3-4 months i was a leecher, and after that i came to the forums, and from that time i have always been helping people out whenever i can, look at my post count, and everything i post today what you call "shit" is in the spam section which doesn't give any post count

 

anything else?