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   Review - Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (VM)

   5.00.3810 (Sep 30, 2004)

   This first Review from donpacman Apr 11, 2003
   was prophetically right about MSJVM (Microsoft Java Virtual Machine) Version: 5.00.3810
   
   He said "If you have a MS system I would download this (VM) and keep it because a judge will stop MS from distributing VM and we'll have to use that garbage from SUN"
   
   Today 30Sep2004, With Windows 2000 Service Pack 4:
   1) The Microsoft Update Q816093_W2K_SP4_X86_EN.exe REFUSES TO INSTALL,
   2) Microsoft's MSJVM alternative HAVE ALL BEEN WITHDRAWN (no msjavwu.exe version 5.00.3810 is available from microsoft.com)
   3) So your only alternative is this download (MSJavWU_8073687b82d41db93f4c2a04af2b34d.exe) which you should rename msjavwu.exe for Win2000 SP4 to accept it.
   4) The Sun J2RE (Java Runtime Environment j2re-1_4_2_05-windows-i586-p.exe) works OK on XP SP1 BUT refuses to decompress/unzip on 2 different Win2000 SP4 PC/Laptop with an error "Failed to extract file 'Dll_.ini' from the binary table." in windows "InstallShield DLL Custom Action"
   
   See the brilliant forum/article: http://www.mcse.ms/message1062959.html entitled "XP SP2 and Sun Java Plugin" but which, in fact, covers all Windows and Java (Sun/MS/..) problems.
   
   It is were I found this article: "I am informed by Torgeir Bakken, MVP, that if you rename the downloaded file from here: http://fileforum.betanew...ail.php3?fid=1050022631 to msjavwu.exe it will then also work for W2000 SP4.)
   
   Thank you very much for this download. I'm not a Sun or Microsoft partisan but like most people, I JUST WANT WINDOWS/IE6 TO WORK (and safely with Java)