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i'm very sad being unable to test your NetBeans IDE in current version and even 5.5 beta. Well, I tried using the installer for ver. 5.0, 5.5 and the bundle of NetBeans 5.0 and JDK 1.5.0 Update 6. Anyhow after defining the directory where to be installed and chosing the jdk to be used, the installation process is interrupted with a click on "next". I even tried to intall in safe mode...same problem. Afterwards I thought of using the archive-version without installer. Anything is fine and I can see NetBeans IDE loading...but when finished loading there's something to happen wrong. Long loading time for a grey window...nothing else. So, as you may have noticed, I'm a bit nerved by always trying and failing. A friend of mine installed NetBeans on Linux ...no problems. So... what's going wrong? My JDK is working well. OS = WinXP SP2 thanks for possible answer.
It seems it is known problem with Swing and Win XP. To confirm that please try to set default desktop theme. You can also run installer with -is:extract. It will extract setup.jar from installer. Then run java -Dis.debug=1 -Dtemp.dir=<Path to any exiting dir with r/w access> -jar setup.jar. It will print more details to console. If it is not the case you can still get more info why installer crashes. In such case please attachresulting log here. Thanks. You can see issue #64380 for more details.
The same problem can happen with IDE itself. You can get more info in IDE log. Search for messages.log. Its default location on Windows is at "C:\Documents and Settings\<User name>\.netbeans\<version>\var\log".
Closing as duplicate. If it is not right please reopen and add more info. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 64380 ***