Fatal error starting LO - resolved

THe program cannot be started.
A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.

XP SP3 LO 3.6.4
Used to work fine until a few days ago when:
Browsers clamored for JAVA
installed JAVA (been doing fine without before)
on XP startup, complaint about security certificate problem,… secure.oracle.com
Disabled all Java and Sun startup tasks in XP (using CC) which fixed the certificate problem.

First time I started LO this fatal error showed, did a REPAIR from the install.exe.
didn’t fix it though.

UPdate:
Uninstalled LO, then re-installed.
FIXED

OP: @fritzo

Hi @Fritzo,
Could you please close out this question if you have resolved your question?

(If you can’t just close the question, feel free to mark my answer as correct – at least that way it won’t show up in the ‘unanswered questions’ list anymore)

Thanks!