Java stopped working in the web browser?

[Bradley1234]

For some reason, on my win2000 sp4, newly updated generic Intel Pentium
system, java applets on web pages stopped working

This was about the time I downloaded the Microsoft Web developer beta tool,
but am not sure.

Ive been over and over the java settings, trying to get weather applets I
used to check daily. setting the weather sites to "trusted site" and all
permissions to lowest level, no, java applets just do not work.

I visited the Sun website to try to test and download java but it doesnt
appear that they have such a feature. Is there some dotnet setting that
overrides Java applets?

tia

 

[Bradley1234]

so now I find the www.java.com website that did the test and is downloading
java as we speak.... lets see where it goes

oh it works so cool now, I dont know how it got zapped but it did a download
that took about 5 minutes and works great now