r.dirksen

Strange. Some people are also having that issue with XP, so it's not a Vista thing. Seemingly it's a problem with Sun's installer. To quote technet ArticleID/KB 280670: and Clearly, it's trying to download a transform (that's what the .MST file is) from their web server in certain cases, and Windows Installer doesn't support that, so it shouldn't do it, ever (why try to make it do something that won't work?) It must be a glitch/bug in their MSI installer's code/conditions. I might have a look sometime (I don't have any apps that require Sun's Java though, so I don't normally install it). Hopefully I'll manage to reproduce the problem, then log the msi installer (verbose), and also trace it with process monitor. Edit: it installs just fine right from my desktop. Can't reproduce the problem. Oh well. well, I'm running XP pro SP3 and I can't install the update either. So it is not a vista thing. on the other hand, I had no problem installing Java the first time but I guess that has todo with the fact I downloaded first and installed later. I don't understand what a transform is. more important, does anyone know a solution?