Posts by groovon

InstallSource, under 'data', shows what looks to be the Sun Java download site (http://java.sun.com/webapps/download/Getfile/1.4.2......), not a folder on my hard drive(!) ...duh. OK, so that just shows that it was a direct install...

"Again enter registry editor, find a key named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\1.4.2_03. If you don't have that key that means J2RE did not install at all. If it is there, then there should be an entry...

"....there should be an entry named "InstallSource". Delete whatever folder is listed in "InstallSource", then delete the key containing these entries (Only delete the key named {xxx-xxx...xxx} that contains...

OK, will try that. Thanks.

The file is the one from the site you directed me to. Yep, size is 14.5MB. (Also have the 1.35MB file there, in My Docs.) Am checking out a few things. Might go to the Sun site and try their troubleshooting program. Cheers ...

What parts of Windows/XP does Java need in order to work? I could easily have deleted some necessary files... I have been a pretty wild deleter in the past, attempting to keep hard drive clean. That was before I got addicted to Fix-It...

Doing another search - all folders and files containing the word 'Java'... Maybe Sun has a decent troubleshooting procedure?

Control Panels (Classic View) - List View/Details: No mention of Java or Java plug-ins... hmm...

'java runtime environment, 107MB' is what's listed in Add/Remove Programs... still lookin' ...

delta: 'Do I see a Java Plug-in setting in the Control Panel?' Which folders in Control Panel (or anywhere else) would have something that would pin down Java as being there or not/enabled or not, faultily installed, or so on? Dave