To all: Thank you for your time in assisting me here. I should mention that while I am having this issue with Tomcat 6 on my personal Vista machine at home I also installed Tomcat 6 on the XP box I use as a developer at work (don't tell them, ok? :) ). I do not have this issue with Tomcat 6 installed on this XP box. Though after a reboot of the XP box the Tomcat Service Manager does not show up in the system tray I am able to have it show up by clicking on Start -> All Programs -> Apache Tomcat 6.0 -> Monitor Tomcat. I do not get any kind of "red X" dialogs complaining about what I am doing. So it appears that Vista and its security measures may be the culprit here.
In doing some brief googling about turning off UAC I have found a way or two to turn it off, however several what appeared to me to be technically intelligent individuals have recommended not turning off UAC, saying its a bad thing to do. Anyway, as long as I get the Tomcat Service Manager running in the system tray so that I can turn Tomcat on and off as needed I'll be OK..... I think. Thanks again Gary On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Serge Fonville <serge.fonvi...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > Wouldn't Windows or Tomcat complain if I did this and it was already > > started? > > > To make sure if tomcat is in fact running you can either check taskmanager > or look inside services.msc. > > > > To enable the Tomcat monitor, find the tomcat6w.exe program (not > > tomcat6.exe) in Tomcat's bin directory with Explorer, right-click on the > > program entry, select the Compatibility tab, and then check the "Run this > > program as an administrator" box. This will allow the Tomcat monitor > icon > > to be placed in the system tray and start the service. However, you will > > still get an annoying UAC dialog box at boot time asking you to ok what > you > > did; I don't know how to get rid of that without turning off UAC > completely. > > > > > To disable UAC you can run msconfig, on the last tab, there is and option > to > disable UAC. > > You should check if tomcat runs OK on other machines (Vista or not), that > way you can be sure whether it is host specific, os specific, of you should > do some additional configuration (I know for a fact that tomcat works under > Vista, I have it running on my Vista x64 machine, without errors or > dialogs) > > Hope this helps > > Regards, > > Serge Fonville >
