Older Java installers are designed to look for and automatically load a number of specifically named DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files that might exist in the folder they were launched from.

Ah, I see.<BR><BR>I usually try and disable anything I don't need in my start-up, so the Java Panel didn't end up there, meaning I basically never knew it existed.<BR><BR>It was set to cache java ...

Older Java installers are designed to look for and automatically load a number of specifically named DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files that might exist in the folder they were launched from.