Vista and Java issues

[Rommels]

Ok, so I received my free copy of Vista from Microsoft yesterday, YEA!!
So I install drivers and such, among these Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0 and GomezPeer. (If you want the download link I can provide one)

Anyways, I startup GomezPeer and windows gives me a nice little message.

The color scheme has been changed to windows vista basic

A running program isn't compatible with certain visual elements of Windows
Click here for more information

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Message 1
Message 2


Well I may have JRE 1.6.0 installed but GomezPeer uses an older java (j2se 1.4.2) it keeps in it's own folder. So I figured I'd at least try to copy the new java stuff over the old stuff gomez was using before posting for ideas on a fix. I already sent an e-mail to Gomez asking them if they will be updating their client, no I haven't heard back yet. I tried to run it as a service but that didn't seem to work, it wouldn't connect to the internet which defeats the reason to run it.

So I in summery, can this windows auto changing to aero basic when an incompatible program is running be bypassed? If not can some smart person look at the gomez stuff it installs and see if a quick fix is possible? Pretty please with a possible cherry on top.

-Rommel

 

[Czar]

innstall vmware and run another xp installation for this program

 

[Rommels]

Seriously, that has to be one of the most insane proposals I have heard to run a program that sits in the system tray.
I think I should add a disclaimer.

DISCLAIMER: Reasonable ideas only, this si a system tray application after all.

 

[Tencntraze]

I'm pretty sure that older versions of Java have an incompatibility with Aero Glass; at work a couple months ago or so when doing some work with Vista RC2, loading a java applet in a web browser would do the same thing. Since this is a java-level issue, I'm not sure that there's an application-specific fix that can be implemented, so the only fix is to get the app to use the newer runtime.

 

[Rommels]

Pretty much summed up HERE.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Rommels
Seriously, that has to be one of the most insane proposals I have heard to run a program that sits in the system tray.
I think I should add a disclaimer.

DISCLAIMER: Reasonable ideas only, this si a system tray application after all.

sorry, have no idea what that program is

and the problem with Java and Vista is that java is a stupid stupid bad program that needs administrator rights to run, old versions did anyway