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EarthExplorer

Microsoft Virtual Machine settings

To use EarthExplorer in Internet Explorer you must be using the Microsoft Virtual machine. To check your settings, click on the IE Tools menubar and select Internet Options. In the Internet Options window, click on the Advanced tab and scroll down to the area shown below. Make sure "Java console enabled..." under "Microsoft VM" has been checked and that the "Use Java 2..." under Java (Sun) checkbox is empty. EarthExplorer will not work if Sun Java 2 v1.4.0 has been checked.

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