Anyone know anything about installing apps

[jon112981]

I got myself a brand spankin' new Dell (8500 with WinXP) in September. Runs like a breeze with everything. I get up to school and go to our engineering computer center and pick up a copy of the latest MATLAB disk. I knew we would get a new copy of it so I didn't bother to install this before. I pop the disk and and install it. I try to start up MATLAB and I get the splash screen with the logo, version and liscence info. Then that screen goes away and suddenly there is nothing. I look in the processes and there is no sign of MATLAB at all. This is MATLAB R12 I think. I'll check when I get home to my laptop. Anyone got any ideas as to what is wrong?

[stroyal]

were you able to check accepting the licence? Sometimes the default is NO.

[jmichna]

Your Dell 8500, isn't that a laptop?
Here's a link to MATLAB requirements:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/system.shtml/Windows These requirements are written around R13, but should be close to what R12 required.

Java conflict maybe?

[jon112981]

Indeed. I have run this version of matlab on a lot less powerful laptops. I had it on an Insperon 8100 so I figured it should run just fine on the 8500. If there was a Java conflict wouldn't I get an error message though?