Topic: Help- Java is stuck!!!

[J. Carney]

I was getting the plugin for Java a few weeks ago- and the stupid thing stopped mid install!

I'm running the new version of Firefox. I have stripped out my brouser and tried to put it back so I could re-D/L and try to install to no avail. In my D/L manager, it still shows as installing Java and won't let me clear it out.

Where are all those pesky files hiding so I can erase them and re-install again so i can get my comp working?

[Bonk]

http://java.sun.com/

I'm having similar trouble with Netscape 7.1 - doesn't matter how many times I uninstall, reinstall and re-enable java, Netscape refuses to acknowledge its existance... personally I grow more and more weary of java's supposed platform independence...

IE picks up sun's jre install no prob... myself if I need to use a java applet I load up IE.. kind of a pain but there it is...

but if you want to see applets written for the jre 1.3. you'll need to uninstall the jre 2 and install 1.3.1, arg - that was where sun lost me, no backward compatibility, I imagine thousands of applets out there are now obsolete and may never be re-written for the very reason I refuse to deal with it.

I only have sun's java installed now so I can use DbVisualiser, but java apps on windows seem to be hideous resource hogs....

[J. Carney]

Thanks, Bonk...
And, no IE is not picking up on Java apps either. Ticks me off something fierce.

Oh, well... I'll just go to a friends till I can back up everything and strip out Windows and reload it to get rid of the old plugins...

I hate computers sometimes.

[kmelew]

Have you tried looking under C:\WINDOWS\JAVA and tried deleting what's there?  A brutal method but sometimes it works.

[J. Carney]

No joy... that didn't work either.

Rasafrackin' computer- I need to, in the words of Ford Prefect "pop off to your main databanks and reprogram them with a very large ax."