How to run any jar file in windows

As many of you know, JAR extensions are used for Java files that have not been packaged in an EXE file, a peculiarity that these have is that they need the computer to have the Java virtual machine installed in order to function. Today we will show you how to quickly run these files.

Steps necessary to run JAR files

The first step that we have to fulfill in order to run JAR files on our PC is to install the Java virtual machine. Java is an interpreted language, which means that the virtual machine is in charge of “translating” the code written by the developers into the binary language, so that the computer can understand it, logically this is a very simple explanation, but it helps us to understand the importance of what comes next.

The advantage of Java applications is that they can be run on all operating systems for which the virtual machine is available, without the need to modify the code, something that does not happen with compiled programming languages ​​such as C. To install the Java virtual machine we just have to go to its official website, download the package for Windows (or another operating system) and install it, you can do it by clicking here.

The Java versions are constantly updated, at the time of writing this post, the latest version available is 161. Once installed, the program will automatically search for new versions and notify the user for download and installation.

Once we have the latest version of the Java virtual machine installed, we can run all kinds of JAR files on our PC, for this we just have to right-click on the file and select Java to open it.

Here ends our tutorial on how to run JAR files in Windows, remember to share it on social networks so that it can help more users.