Hi Robert,

"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> a écrit dans le message de
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> BTW if you don't get it working with those hints,
> what I would do is uninstall the old MSJava stuff
> and try to see if the Sun stuff will reinstall properly
> normally.
>
Finally with your bright help,
i managed to get it work !

i uninstall the microsoft VM
following a Sun procedure found here(sorry in french must exist also in
other languages
owe to your regional settings on java.com)

http://www.java.com/fr/download/help/uninstall_msvm.xml

i uninstalled , also, before the rebooting the jre update10
i deleted the windows java folder/the java files described above
deleted the registry keys

And then i went to java.com and i had been able
to do an online installation and then the online sun's java
version checking worked !
Probably , from my xp to vista upgrade,
the previous installations of both java/Microsoft VM
let some bad settings/files.
But i has been nearly two years ago(!) and never i had encountered
any worries java related but since one month.
I dont understand why my problem occured.
perhaps last java version(update10) or some vista KB updates
modified java "behavior".

Two notices:
One:
java options in IE7/8 /advanced are still not there(so must be vista "rule",
under xp were there)

Two:
in the java cpl/advanced tab the "java by default for internet browsers":
Microsoft Internet explorer is grayed out and ticked

i hope it will work now !

Anyway many thanks again Robert, your patient advices brought me to the
solution !
(crossing fingers)
Best regards