XP locks up with Sun's Java

[philiusm]

I did a clean instal of XP Pro on a machine and all went well for a
week. I installed an old program I have that accesses the internet
and it would not run. The program did run on the same machine with
Win 2k Pro SP4. The Win 2k installation was running Sun's Java.
Thinking that may be my problem I installed Java from Sun. The
program still would not run so I uninstalled it. From time to time,
while on the internet, my computer will lock up and I have to do a
reset. The event viewer led me to an article regarding a mixed
installation of MS VM and Sun' Java. The solution did not work.

What happens if I uninstall Java and do a repair installation of XP?

Phil

 

[Dirk]

XP Pro works great with its built in MSJava
VirtualMachine so you should uninstall the Sun's Java
one. Then, perform that XP repair installation.

Good luck

 

[Clayton]

What about those with SP1a

XP Pro works great with its built in MSJava
VirtualMachine so you should uninstall the Sun's Java
one. Then, perform that XP repair installation.

Good luck

 

[Dirk]

Same for SP1.

Good luck

-----Original Message-----
What about those with SP1a




.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

No Dirk, you are misleading - SP1a has no MS Java - court order
required MS to stop distributing it's version of JAVA, it can continue
to support (security fixes) those with an existing version (3810 I
believe) - so no - not the same.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

FYI - I'm running XP SP1 with mixed mode MS Java and Sun's Java
1.4.2_4

 

[Dirk]

Hi Star,
What's the difference? Here we have only MS Java on eight
machines running SP1. Sun's Java 1.4.2_4 was uninstalled
since SP1 so we're working with MS JavaVM only and never
had any problems with applets or anything.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Same for SP1.

Microsoft's Java engine comes *only* in SP1. Not in the original XP,
nor in SP1a. You have to find an alternative source for the MS one
after they were prevented by court order from having it for download

 

[Alex Nichol]

From time to time,
while on the internet, my computer will lock up and I have to do a
reset. The event viewer led me to an article regarding a mixed
installation of MS VM and Sun' Java. The solution did not work.

What happens if I uninstall Java and do a repair installation of XP?

That would lose you both Java engines. But you could then try
installing Sun's one again. A point that you may have missed is that
you then need to run its applet in Control Panel, and in its Browser
page check off to make it the default in IE (or Netscape) - without that
it will not get used