Thanks for the reply. I will look into this. But I am getting into unfamiliar territory here. Are you referring to the build? Is it that all instances of "7.0_17" should be "8.0_20". I just noticed this. It is repeatedly mentioned in various forums about that being an issue. Even so I am unsure how to actually "check the path line".

I retried everything because for some reason I had java.exe in two different places. I had both JRE and JDK versions in my Java folder. By the description here seems I want JRE? http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...ads/index.html Or am I wrong? Or does it matter? Clearly I am ignorant in matters of java.

Also if it matters, all .bin files are associated with VLC. Is this a problem? I uninstalled VLC and still had teh same errors. Should my .bin files be associated with another program? I ask because I searched for shared.txt and there is .bin file with that name.

One other thing regarding my third post, my pc has minidumps enabled, I am not sure what "client versions of Windows" means.