i am a dumb dumb

[goose_01ca]

Java problems please help!
Can someone possibly help me in plain english what I need to do to fix this. So i'm trying to play yahoo pool... soon as i log in it goes to the lovely advertisement screen and "click here to continue to yahoo pool" so i click on it, and all kinds of java errors come up (security exceptions).
java.security.PrivilegedA... java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the patch specified.

java.lang.NullpointerException
java.lang.NullpointerException

So i checked online for some tutorials or people with the same problem to find an easy fix, all I could find were pages with lists of code etc. that I have no idea how to use or program or whatever to make java work, so I read a few other pages and played with IE settings and java settings, didn't work, so I removed IE, Java, flash player, shockwave flash player etc. reinstalled new IE 7, adobe flash player, and the newest Java I assume, still exact same problem.. any ideas?

[sukatoa]

Have you also search for an article regarding this issue?

What JRE version did you use?

[goose_01ca]

java platform standard 6 build 1.6.0

i tried a couple diff ones online wasn't sure what to use, one was labeled sdk and another was jre maybe, or was it jre and jse.. something like that

[goose_01ca]

It also never worked with online installation it said something like jb1600000.cab was missing or wouldn't install or download so i had to use the offline installer if that helps at all... i just can't figure out why ie 7, win xp sp2, shockwave flash player, adobe flash player, and all my active X control don't work like they normally would.. this is what all the errors say along with the code or details.

first popup error says:
java.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified.

the details for it are:

java.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.openInputStream(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.getAllPersistedCredentials(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager.<init>(U nknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.<init> (Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.getIns tance(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.services.WPlatformService.getCreden tialManager(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployAuthenticator.<init> (Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Nati ve Method)
at java.io.File.createNewFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor$1.run(Unknown Source)
... 11 more

Next popup error is:

java.lang.NullPointerException

Details are:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.read(Unk nown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFull y(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.rea dShort(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.getAllPersistedCredentials(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager.<init>(U nknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.<init> (Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.getIns tance(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.services.WPlatformService.getCreden tialManager(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployAuthenticator.<init> (Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)

Then again same error 3rd popup:

java.lang.NullPointerException

Details are:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.read(Unk nown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.readFull y(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.rea dShort(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.getAllPersistedCredentials(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager$Credenti alPersistor.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.CredentialManager.<init>(U nknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.<init> (Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.MSCredentialManager.getIns tance(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.services.WPlatformService.getCreden tialManager(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.security.DeployAuthenticator.<init> (Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.initEnvironment(Unknown Source)

[Eranga]

Did you have install any JDK version?