I'm learning Java right now and this is probably an extremely basic question as I have only reached lesson 4 in "Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours 6th Edition"

Anyway, in this lesson we create our first simple applet "RootApplet" and when I attempt to run I am given this error:

"Warning: Can't read AppletViewer properties file: C:\Users\<Username>\.hotjava\properties Using defaults."

I checked my computer and the folder ".hotjava" is not present at that location, and I cannot find it anywhere (though I checked with the Windows search in Windows Explorer which is wildly error prone)

I also searched here and did not find any matches on ".hotjava"

The almost overly thorough book does not address this error, the book's website seems very old and contains no help forum, and the hits I've found online don't help. A couple of them mention a failure with read/write permissions, but since the file doesn't exist at all this cannot be my error.

Info:

Windows 7
Netbeans IDE 7.0.1
Java SE Development Kit 7 (update 1)