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Originally posted by Stoepsel
could you be a bit more specific about what damage the sun java environment did to your computer?
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well perhaps 'damage' is an exaggeration, but it replaced the microsoft browser java vm with its own, which i found intrusive. this made anything java-based load far more slowly within the browser and placed a coffee cup icon in the system tray until i closed all ie windows (a friend of mine didn't make the connection between the sun jvm and this icon and was quite annoyed).
if anyone's got this and is wondering how to stop it, go to control panel, choose java plug-in <version> and put a check in 'do not start console'.
limewire also seems to have a tendency to reinstall a slightly different version of the jvm on each upgrade, which eats hard disk space and makes thing's look messy, although this isn't really sun's fault.
overall i found .net to be more agreeable from a user's point-of-view.