FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
The problem occurs in the latest Sun JRE 5.0, Sun JRE 6.0 and even in JRockit 1.6.0_20-b02

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Windows 7 Home, Russian version

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
javax.swing.JFileChooser no-arg constructor throws NullPointerException:

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Create the simplest Java Application and try to create JFileChooser.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
New file chooser is created and the program is successfully terminated
ACTUAL -
The java.lang.NullPointerException is thrown

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
Exception in thread "Main Thread" java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$7.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:550)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$7.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:547)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:518)
at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.invoke(ShellFolder.java:399)
at sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.invoke(ShellFolder.java:385)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.getFileSystemPath(Win32ShellFolder2.java:547)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.access$300(Win32ShellFolder2.java:55)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$11.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:727)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2$11.call(Win32ShellFolder2.java:718)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker$3.run(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:487)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
package com;

import javax.swing.*;

public class EntryPoint {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        new JFileChooser();
    }
}
---------- END SOURCE ----------

SUPPORT :
YES