Q:

"Disabled use of AcceptEx() WinSock2 API" error on Windows 7 using Tomcat

When starting Tomcat 6 on Windows 7 Enterprise with JRE 6 using
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin\tomcat6.exe
the application does not open and my event viewer has the message:
"Disabled use of AcceptEx() WinSock2 API." 
The same installer of Tomcat worked on Windows Vista before I upgraded my operating system. 
Can anyone please suggest a way to fix this? 
The only site I can find mentioning this is 
http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?p=4418
which suggests using this config setting "Win32DisableAcceptEx" - but it's for Apache, not Tomcat, and I have no idea where in what config file it might need to go in Tomcat. 

A:

Answered on the Tomcat user mailing list by Caldarale, Charles R:
Download the latest Java JDK. 
Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the top level JDK folder. 
Download the zip version of Tomcat, not the exe installer. 
Start it using the startup.bat script.