Java

[Trent Hogan]

Hi

I have just formatted my hard drives and reinstalled my
windows XP Pro. When I log onto Yahoo to play games I get
the red x. When I went to java help it said that xp sould
have java installed and I should have no problem. What is
my problem and how do I fix it? It says to go to start
menu> then > Settings but there is no Settings in XP
under the start menu that I can see. Please speak in
laymans terms as I am not totally a comp savy.

Thank you
I appreciate any and all help

 

[Alias]

Hi

I have just formatted my hard drives and reinstalled my
windows XP Pro. When I log onto Yahoo to play games I get
the red x. When I went to java help it said that xp sould
have java installed and I should have no problem. What is
my problem and how do I fix it? It says to go to start
menu> then > Settings but there is no Settings in XP
under the start menu that I can see. Please speak in
laymans terms as I am not totally a comp savy.

Thank you
I appreciate any and all help

You need to download and install Sun Java. To find, it go to www.sun.com

Alias

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi

I have just formatted my hard drives and reinstalled my
windows XP Pro. When I log onto Yahoo to play games I get
the red x.

You need a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Get one at
http://java.sun.com/getjava

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have just formatted my hard drives and reinstalled my
windows XP Pro. When I log onto Yahoo to play games I get
the red x. When I went to java help it said that xp sould
have java installed and I should have no problem. What is
my problem and how do I fix it?

MS produced a Java that extends the language as defined by Sun, so that
it would 'work better' with Windows. This was not included in windows
XP, but was available as a separate download, and included in XP SP1

(There appear to be sites that have taken advantage of this, and will
not work with the Sun one - and Yahoo games appears to be one of them

Sun sued MSoft, and the ruling in the case prohibits MS from making
'their' engine available as a download - so it is left out of the
revised SP1a

You can still get a 3805 or 3809 build from some sites that are *not*
MSoft sites - and MSoft is not going to object.
eg 3805 from Http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/msjavx86.exe

Once you have such an older version you can get the 816093 'critical
security update' which is effectively a complete build, 3810