Vista, IE and Java

[shuntfield]

Hi All

Hope someone can help I've spent about 5 hours on this so far and its doing me in

I have Vista Ultimate, and I have Sun Java installed, when I try to go to a Java Enabled site nothing happens, I have uninstalled, and reinstalled from the Sun site more times that I care to remember, by various methods, (online offline install etc)

The Java icon doesn't appear in the system tray or anything.

If I try to open the Sun Java Console nothing happens.

If I run IE as an administrator (right click icon and "Run as administrator") it works, If I don’t use UAC it works.

If I create a new account from scratch - it works
If I use Firefox it works.

But it doesn’t in my user account.

I want UAC ON. So the solution is not “switch it off!”
I use IE mainly so I don’t want to fully switch to Firefox.

Any ideas how to get it working again? It used to be fine and worked ok. Last time it happened I ended up formatting and starting again, which I might do because I think I'll get a Velociraptor.

Anyway - any ideas to get it to work without having elevate privileges.

Appreciate any help

Cheers

Shunts...

 

[FunkyT]

Which version of Internet Explorer are you referring to?

 

[shuntfield]

Does it on both IE7.0 and IE8.0 Beta 2

Thanks

Shunts...

 

[FunkyT]

Did you manage to sort this problem?

 

[shuntfield]

Yep:

Format C:

Shunts...

 

[philjohn]

Are you using Vista 64bit? If so, most browser plugins are only compatible with the 32bit version of Explorer (you'll notice there are two versions on a Vista 64 install).

 

[paradigm]

The best thing to do in that instance wouldn't have been to format C: but to recreate your local profile.

 

[shuntfield]

Its Vista 32-Bit

I did buy a new hard disk, but after around 4 hours of messing with it I gave up.

I did create a new profile, so that I could use sites with Java.

Thanks

Shunts...