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Background

I have had the same laptop for about 6 years (an Acer Aspire 8920), which runs Windows Vista. I have 2 hard drives, and I use one for the OS, and one for larger applications and data. Periodically I re-install Windows (and then all the applications) to keep things running nicely. Everything has always been fine, until now:

The problem

I just cannot install Java. I have installed it before, on this laptop and on other PCs, and never had a problem with it.

To recreate the problem

  • Format HD
  • Install Windows Vista
  • Try to install Java 7 or 8 (offline versions)
  • Install gets almost to the end, then throws a 1603 error.

What have I tried so far

  • Using the online and offline installer
  • Turning off User Account Control
  • Using PDQ Deploy, and deploying the Java 7 (32-bit) and ALTERNATIVE versions.
  • Checking that I am logged in as Administrator.
  • Right click on the installer and "Run as Administrator"
  • Checking that my HDs are not encrypted
  • Checking that my HDs are not substitute drives
  • Installing to C:\Java
  • Installing to D:\Java

Additional Information Two other strange symptoms might be relevant.

  • Windows is sometimes not letting me execute downloaded files. In those cases, if I copy them onto a memory stick, and unplug/replug the stick, then I can run from the stick.
  • I installed another application, PSoC Creator, which in an IDE for a microcontroller, and I've had it working on this laptop before. It contains GCC, however when I try to compile code using the IDE, GCC fails with the message: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory. Again, nothing I do seems to fix this.
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The simple answer is that under Vista, Java needs SP1 installed.

I was naively installing a fresh copy of Vista, thinking that something else was interferring with it, whereas the fresh Vista was itself the problem.

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In your environment variables search for entry for _JAVA_OPTIONS and remove it

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