Slackdemic, As you yourself said that it should not be this complicated, it really should not be. If you follow JavaBeans's instructions, it would be done in a fly! But I was wondering about the screenshot you posted earlier. I guess it is not the JCreator installation screen where 'you are asked to choose the location for JDK'. It says 'Change Current Destination Folder'. What were you trying to accomplish exactly at that point? I would like to make a suggestion that please make yourself clear about JDK and and IDE. The 'Java Development Kit' is a set of packages which implements the basic set of tools needed to write, test and debug Java applications. Whereas JCreator is just some application called as IDE which lets you write/edit easily your java codes. That is why I suggest newbies at least to write, compile and run 'hello world' programs from command prompt - that makes you understand how things are actually. It is easy but IDEs hide a lot of things from you if you already do not have the concept.