On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, 6:54:27 PM, George wrote: GCB> Hi Chris, Hi George. I have been uninstalling all the Java versions, and oXygen, and clearing the registry of oxygen and java stuff, and reinstalling; it hadn't helped. GCB> From the stack trace the problem appears when oXygen tries to create GCB> the standard Java dialog for opening/saving files and it seems to get GCB> into problems loading an icon. GCB> Have you changed the Windows appearance? It may be some new theme or GCB> style that Java cannot find its icons for... I had indeed uninstalled a theme manager (Stardock Windowblinds). Never thought it would be related; I had a couple of missing icons but though that was merely aesthetic. GCB> Maybe one thing you can try is to reset the options by renaming the GCB> com.oxygenxml folder from your [user home directory]/Application Data GCB> and let us know if that changes things. I did that, and it did not change things. However, I have now repaired the icon set so there are no missing icons, and oXygen now happily starts once more. Many thanks for the help, I would never have though it was a missing icon! -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG