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,Added link to the new "Patch-in-place" update mechanism.
This requires the Windows Offline installation package available from Sun. Note that the java install package does not replace old versions, so JRE 1.5 and JRE 1.6 can coexist; all older 1.6 update versions (1.6.0 up to 1.6.0 Update 7) are tried to be removed (note that the update version seems to be no more reflected in the last number in the Uninstall ID).
Actually, with Update 10 and 11 Sun has introduced as default the so called "patch in place" update mechanism (see: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/otherFeatures/jre_install.html) which automatically does remove the previous version. So the line that tries to remove the Update 10 version (msiexec /qn /x {26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83216010FF}) is not strictly necessary.
The following installs JRE Update 11 and then removes the "Java Quick Starter" service; if you want to keep "Java Quick Starter" service then just remove the line with "jqs.exe -unregister", but remeber to stop/kill JQS before uninstallation.