Thread: Javaw.exe - I have four files on my computer. Do I need them all?

While installing the Eclipse IDE it asks where the javaw.exe file is. I dont know what that means - I'm brand new to all this stuff. So I Windows Explorer > Search > This PC and among the drives I get four results. So it appears I have four files on my computer named javaw.exe. So I'm assuming that I dont need all four of these files, and in fact, only need one.

Like I said, I'm new. I assume, like with many program installs, there's a file-foundation that needs to exist and that javaw.exe is in brick in that foundation. Perhaps it's a file needed to run java? I assume this cause it's attached to other downloads since I now have four copies of it. I've never been asked by an install program to find javaw.exe, so I didnt know this may be an issue. But I imagine that it's not a good thing to have multiples of the same file - that I should probably keep just one copy, keep it updated, and point everything to the one "javaw.exe" file.

Say I'm right - where would the best place be to keep javaw.exe? My User folder?

Your thoughts? And I off-base, on-base?

Thank you.