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This is not exactly an installer problem but a "startup"-problem (didn't find anything matching better.) 1. I installed Netbeans 5.5.1 on a Windows 2003 Server-machine as Administrator 2. logged in as normal user 3. Double-click on the Netbeans icon => nothinh happens (apart from about 3 seconds of an hourglass cursor) => %UserProfile%\.netbeans\5.5.1\var\log\messages.log does not contain anything enlightening It took me some time to find out: 1. Start nb.exe instead of netbeans.exe in a shell -> you get an Exception message from Java Reason was a .accessibility.properties file in %UserProfile% that requested an AccessBridge which was not available in the JDK that I chose for usage together with netbeans. Suggestion: Bring up some message box when startup fails, maybe with a hint to look into the messages.log file, and put the exception message into the log-file.
reassigning to core where the netbeans launcher lives.