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When I try to open project (clicking "open project" toolbar icon or file menu item), I get the following exception: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 3184 at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileChooserIcon(Win32ShellFolder2.java:748) at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.get(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:248) at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.get(ShellFolder.java:221) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel$LazyWindowsIcon.createValue(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:1865) at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(UIDefaults.java:185) at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(UIDefaults.java:130) at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(MultiUIDefaults.java:44) at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getIcon(UIDefaults.java:411) at javax.swing.UIManager.getIcon(UIManager.java:613) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installIcons(BasicFileChooserUI.java:237) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installDefaults(BasicFileChooserUI.java:219) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicFileChooserUI.installUI(BasicFileChooserUI.java:135) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsFileChooserUI.installUI(WindowsFileChooserUI.java:126) at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(JComponent.java:652) at javax.swing.JFileChooser.updateUI(JFileChooser.java:1755) at javax.swing.JFileChooser.setup(JFileChooser.java:366) at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(JFileChooser.java:332) at javax.swing.JFileChooser.<init>(JFileChooser.java:285) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory$ProjectFileChooser.<init>(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:506) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory$ProjectFileChooser.<init>(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:506) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.ProjectChooserAccessory.createProjectChooser(ProjectChooserAccessory.java:455) at org.netbeans.modules.project.ui.actions.OpenProject.actionPerformed(OpenProject.java:58) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1849) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2169) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:420) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:231) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:231) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1778) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803) [catch] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110) It occurres only when I use Windows Vista RC1 (x86). On Windows XP everything is ok. I had the same problem when I used Sun Java Studio 8.1 beta.
JDK bug - fixed in JDK 6.0 (b96) : http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6449933 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 87917 ***