peter, i checked the JAVA_OPTS and the following directories: - bin/native - php/bin - php/bin/ext are included there as for the "depends utility", i couldnt find a windows version of this so i downloaded "Dependency Walker" which does the same.. it says that my dwmapi.dll is missing as well but other than that it looks a ok. what else can cause the problem? thanks a lot for all your help, nitzan. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115286#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...