Having trouble with StenoTutor Windows 32-bit

[DavidGraper]

I built a Win7 32-bit netbook expressly for using StenoTutor and ran into a problem. After loading the latest release of Java (v8 update 45) I tried running the program ("StenoTutor.exe") and got an error "C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\javaw.exe Unspecified Error" followed by a window with the text "Processing Error: Error calling ShellExecuteEx()".

StenoTutor runs fine on my Linux and Win7 64-bit machines -- I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling Java, no luck; I've run the .exe under admin rights, no good; I've started StenoTutor while located in the Java "bin" directory (in case it was some path error) but still the same error messages.

Any idea what might be wrong? Thanks! - Dave