Sorry, My next lesson is going to be about how to run the silent install of jdeveloper, but work got in the way. This lesson will be coming out later today. -----Original Message----- From: Marvin Hunkin [mailto:startrekcafe@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:32 PM To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-java] Installing Oracle Java Problems Hi. i downloaded the oracle 11 g java package and tried to install it. well, using jaws 10 beta 3 on a toshiba satellite a300 machine, with windows vista home premium, 2 gb ram, 2.1 ghz processor, 250 gb hard disk. now, when it completed its ready to install, then the oracle screen, did nothing for several minutes, and no next, or other buttons, and had to turn the graphics using the jaws verbosity. but no buttons or anything. so any work arounds? and as a beginning programmer, when i signed up for the oracle account, had some problems putting in all the fields, but when i went to the previous screen and tried again, said that my valid e-mail was in use. so did not get signed up. can you help, and have you got work arounds and a tutorial for beginning java with oracle, for a newbie like me. doing programming classes at the moment in visual basic.dot net express 2008. cheers Marvin.