What is the Java TM Plug in SSV Helper

Anonymous
2011-06-10T23:54:12+00:00

What is the Jave TM Plug in SSV Helper?

Do I need it?

If I don't need it, how do I get rid of it?

I'm running Windows Vista.

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Anonymous
2011-06-11T01:41:43+00:00

Java is a programming language. You need something called the Java Runtime Environment to run programs written in Java. The Plugin is part of that. A small number of websites also use this. The Java Runtime Environment will appear in Programs and Features in the Control Panel and can be uninstalled from there. Unfortunately, there is a bug in the uninstallation that leaves the entry for the plugin in the Internet Explorer Manage Addons window after Java is uninstalled. This is harmless because the file has been deleted. To remove the entry in Manage Addons would require editing the Registry.

This bug has been known since at least 2008, but nothing seems to have been done about it.

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6747116

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-02-06T00:49:46+00:00

    HOW TO GET RID OF java??

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-13T19:19:51+00:00

    Why indeed. We just want to know, not to explain why we want to know.

    None of us really wants useless-to-us stuff on our personal computer. My search this AM was prompted by IE saying that I have addons adding over 20 (ms?) to its startup, and that helper was the majority of it.   This is the bottom line extract from the best answer posted in 2012, and there are other fragments that support the same conclusion:

    "Therefore, if you are not in a managed, Enterprise environment—as in, this is your own personal computer—then the SSVHelper Java Browser Helper Object does nothing useful for you, and can be safely disabled."

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-13T19:15:23+00:00

    What we want to know is exactly what this particular part of Java does and if it is necessary for it to be enabled.

    From the best answer:Therefore, if you are not in a managed, Enterprise environment—as in, this is your own personal computer—then the SSVHelper Java Browser Helper Object does nothing useful for you, and can be safely disabled.

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