Enabling JAVA in IE6

[TGK]

I have recently upgraded from Win 98 to Win XP. I use
IE6 as my browser. However, I cannot seem to enable Java
VM/Microsoft VM in the browser. In fact when I go into
Tools, Internet Options, Advanced I do NOT even have a
checkbox for either Java VM or Microsoft VM to check to
activate it. Any ideas?

Thanks,TK

 

[DennisLazo.com]

http://www.dennislazo.com/cgi-bin/waterwheel/index.pl?case=win&c=y#msjvm


| I have recently upgraded from Win 98 to Win XP. I use
| IE6 as my browser. However, I cannot seem to enable Java
| VM/Microsoft VM in the browser. In fact when I go into
| Tools, Internet Options, Advanced I do NOT even have a
| checkbox for either Java VM or Microsoft VM to check to
| activate it. Any ideas?
|
| Thanks,TK

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi TGK - The simplest way to fix the Java "Install on Demand" or similar
message problem is the following:

If your OS is Win2000 SP2, SP3 but NOT SP4 then:

Download and install the MS Java VM v. 3805 from here:
http://download.windowsupdate.com/m..._510A502BA8F9B6F19230BB2BCCE87D5474AC9DCD.exe
Then update to v. 3810 of the MS Java VM from here:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-9b18-423356321682/Q816093_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe

If you're Win2000, SP4, then you appear to have two choices at this
point. Either use Sun Java, or AT YOUR OWN RISK (and I'm not even sure
that this will work) if you saved the necessary files when you
installed, you can try uninstalling SP4 to roll back to SP3 or SP2, then
installing 3805 and 3810 as above, then re-installing SP4.



For all other OS's:

Download and install the MS Java VM v. 3805 from here:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/msjavx86.exe
Then update to v. 3810 of the MS Java VM from here:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1050022631 (Note that
this download is also supposed to be for Win2000, but DON"T use it for
that OS - use the link above.)


You can test whether Java is working on your machine at the following
sites:

http://www.pocoso.de/pocoso052.html
http://www.clan.lib.ri.us/clan/javatest.html
http://www.fitwise.com/testjava.asp (both 1.0 and 1.1 and what's
installed)
http://coglab.wadsworth.com/support/browsercheck.html
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/webct/browser_detect.html

and you can test Javascript here:
http://www.dancespots.net/browsertest.htm

and check whether you have the MS VM installed and which version here:
http://www.visualware.com/support/javasupport.html

Be aware, however, that after Jan 2, 2004, MS will apparently no longer
be distributing Java or providing any support for Java including
security fixes. (It's unclear as to how 6/26/03 court decision will
affect this) See here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/news/jre.asp so you
might want to start thinking about the future.

You can get the Sun Java J2SE RunTimes or SDK here:
http://java.sun.com/downloads/index.html (all versions - select using
the dropdown)

Sun also offers an automatic download and install of the 1.4 Java
plug-in here: http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html

Both Java VM's can co-exist on your machine quite nicely. Just select
which one you want to use in Tools|Internet Options|Advanced and restart
all IE browsers. Here, courtesy of Michel Gallant, MVP Security, is a
tiny utility which allows you to toggle and view status of your current
Java VM vendor associated with IE:
http://pages.istar.ca/~neutron/SelectIEJVM


--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP
Please respond in original thread in Newsgroup.




In [email protected], TGK typed:

 

[Frank Tran]

Dennis,
I had a same problem and it look like since Java is
original from Sun system and Microsoft planed to make it
disappear from IE 6. I found on this news group a replies
from Jim Byrd and it look like the best solution to fix
it. I cut and pasted here:

"The simplest way to fix the "Install on Demand" problem is
to follow the directions/choices here:
http://n6hb.org/s-a/JAVA-ts.htm#ie_jvm Just be sure that
you read it
all carefully.

You can test whether Java is working on your machine at
the following
sites:

http://www.pocoso.de/pocoso052.html
http://www.clan.lib.ri.us/clan/javatest.html
http://www.fitwise.com/testjava.asp (both 1.0 and 1.1 and
what's
installed)
http://coglab.wadsworth.com/support/browsercheck.html
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/webct/browser_detect.html

and you can test Javascript here:
http://www.dancespots.net/browsertest.htm

and check whether you have the MS VM installed and which
version here:
http://www.visualware.com/support/javasupport.html

Be aware, however, that after Jan 2, 2004, MS will
apparently no longer be distributing Java or providing any
support for Java including security fixes. (It's unclear
as to how 6/26/03 court decision will
affect this) See here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/news/jre.
asp so you
might want to start thinking about the future.

You can get the Sun Java J2SE RunTimes or SDK here:
http://java.sun.com/downloads/index.html (all versions -
select using
the dropdown)

Sun also offers an automatic download and install of the
1.4 Java
plug-in here: http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html

Both Java VM's can co-exist on your machine quite nicely.
Just select
which one you want to use in Tools|Internet
Options|Advanced and restart
all IE browsers. Here, courtesy of Michel Gallant, MVP
Security, is a
tiny utility which allows you to toggle and view status of
your current
Java VM vendor associated with IE:
http://pages.istar.ca/~neutron/SelectIEJVM"

Regards,