javaw won't show GUI
843798Jul 9 2002 — edited Sep 22 2003We have setup numerous machines with the J2SE 1.4 JRE and not had any problems, except for a few machines. All the machines are identical and setup the same, but they are setup by hand, the hard drives are not copied. They're all standard Compaq EVO machines (which is pretty much a desktop) running Win2k Server. In a few rare cases, whenever any class or jar is executed, the application launcher (in our case, it's a jar using javaw) starts, but nothing appears and the application launcher does not exit. We've attempted to run the application from java.exe using the -jar option. No exceptions are displayed, and in fact, the logging messages are displayed, but the GUI will not show. The same application runs fine on most machines, just in a few cases it doesn't. If you reinstall the JRE it does not help. We've checked the registry keys, and everything appears to be identical to the other machines. If we completely reinstall the software (from OS up), it seems to correct the problem. Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, is there any other way of resolving this issue?