I've googled around and it seems that I'm not the only one with the problem, however I couldn't find the solution. Maybe someone around here has figured it out. The problem is that netbeans.exe is actually a stub which is calling javaw.exe. When I try to pin the NetBeans process to the taskbar I actually pin 'Java(TM) Platform SE Binary'. That changes the icon and the pin doesn't work. The funny thing is that it works on another machine.

I don't know whether it's because it's a different version of NetBeans, or a different version of Java. Has anyone figured this out? Added: I know this is sort of not programming related; on the other hand there are plenty of topics around here about how to better your programming environment, and this one is no worse than those. Oh, and btw - Windows 7 Enterprise x64; Java JDK 1.6.17; Netbeans 6.8.

Problem found, although not exactly solved. Here's the description: Netbeans.exe is a custom launcher written in C++. It's a 32-bit module. When it loads, it first tries to load Java as a DLL into itself and then start NetBeans. However, if the Java runtime is 64-bit, it cannot do that because a 32-bit module cannot load a 64-bit module and vice-versa. Thus it falls back to starting Java as a separate process (javaw.exe) with the right parameters.

Java SE Development Kit 7 and NetBeans IDE. Java TM SE Development Kit 7 Update 80 and NetBeans TM IDE 8.0.2 Java SE. For the 64-bit Windows.

On the machine where 'everything works' I had installed a 32-bit Java runtime, but on the 'faulty machine' I had installed the full 64-bit JDK. So in essence I see three possible solutions: • Uninstall the 64-bit Java and install 32-bit; • Try to compile the launcher as a 64-bit module (who knows if that will work, probably not without modifications); • Make a shortcut directly to javaw.exe with all the right parameters (those can be found in the Task Manager). Problem found and solved.

It depends on which NetBeans executable you run in combination with the Java VM bitsize installed: Only Java 32-bit installed: • netbeans.exe can be pinned • netbeans64.exe cannot be pinned Only Java 64-bit installed: • netbeans. Captureperfect V3.0.x Software. exe cannot be pinned • netbeans64.exe can be pinned N.B. When I switched between VM versions, NetBeans complained (though this time only; I don't remember it complaining in the past). This can be solved by changing the netbeans_jdkhome= line in etc/netbeans.conf. Here is the full command used to launch the IDE process on my machine (discovered via the excellent ). Obviously your own will be slightly different.

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