How To Fix:
"Install On Demand
(Other)" error
in IE6 on Windows XP
"Must install Java
virtual machine" message in IE (any version)
If you are experiencing one of the above (or similar) using Internet
Explorer (IE), then this section applies to you. The visual symptom is
a gray box where the applet should be.
Due to a legal settlement between Microsoft Corporation and Sun
Microsystems, Microsoft ceased supplying their version of Virtual
Machine for JAVA in early 2003. Security updates will continue to be
supplied until 2 January, 2004. After that date, the product is
"frozen" and no further changes will be made. See Microsoft's
Customer Letter for full details.
- What This Means
for You:
- No future
Microsoft product will include Microsoft Virtual Machine.
- Current (and
likely, future) Service Packs for both Windows and Internet
Explorer will not include VM.
- You will not
be able to obtain Microsoft VM from the Windows Update site,
contrary to some OS
auto-install instructions.
- You will
be able to update existing Microsoft VM installs to the latest
security release at the Windows Update site.
- What to Do?
There are three options:
- 1. Download the
previous Microsoft VM (3805), then visit Windows
Update and upgrade to the current 3810 version. Go this route
if you are more comfortable with a Microsoft-supplied solution:
( VM for Windows 2000: 
| VM for all Windows OS except 2000: )
- 2. Download the
latest 3810 version (all Windows OS except 2000) direct
from this 3rd-party site. Microsoft Windows Online Support
are themselves referring customers here, for those unable to
obtain it via Windows Update Catalog. ()
- 3. Obtain the
Sun JRE, which
includes Virtual Machine, direct from Sun
Microsystems.
Finally,
you can test your browser's JAVA capability (any version, any OS) here.
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