Java2 installation problem

Hi friends,I have installed j2sdk 1_4_2 from the sun site, According to the installation instruction,it says you will see the java icon in the desktop,which i don't see. I don't either see it in the start menu or the taskbar.I just see netbeans everywhere.

Another thing. I don't want to use netbeans, being newbie i would rather go for notepad and dos for compiling. So i have set the ENV Variables,which doesn't seems to work while compliing..ofcourse i doubt if i did installed,but windows installer successfully installed it.(Does it work only after rebooting computer? ) cuz when i write source code of hello world in the notepad and try to compile in a dos it says (COMMAND INPUT OUTPUT ERROR) nOW according to the documentation I went to the directory of jsdk directory in the root drive. (using win2k) it says

There it just says Error:1

I have uninstalled and reinstalled j2sdk 1_4_2, atleast 4 times so far,still can't even see the java icon anywhere . Shall i reformat computer or ??

pls help me

Did you create an account here just to ask that question (since it's your first and all)? If you're looking for java support through a forum, I'd take a look at http://forum.java.sun.com/

There are also numberous (free) guides and lessons for both novice and more experienced users at http://java.sun.com/learning/index.html

I'd ask those questions there.