[news.eclipse.newcomer] How to run Eclipse on Vista?

["Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just download eclipse classic on to a new vista notebook and tried to to 
unzip it the vista unzip program said it needed two hours!

So then I used cygwin to unzip it in a few minutes. Wow! I wonder what is 
wrong with the vista unzip program?

Anyway, then tried to run eclipse.exe and recieved this error message in a 
dialog box:

"The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate the companion shared 
library".

So then I thought something was wrong with either the cygwin unzip or the 
zip file I had downloaded. So I copied the expanded eclipse directory from 
my desktop machine where eclipse SDK 3.3 seems to running running fine. I 
run windows explorer again on the eclipse directory and click on eclipse.exe 
again and I get the same dialog box!

How do we run eclipse? I thought eclipse was entirely self contained with 
its own JRE and javac.

Thanks,
Siegfried