I haven''t used NetBeans, but you can change the default look and feel used by all Java applications by creating a file called swing.properties and placing it in the jre/lib directory. In this file you put:

# Swing propertiesswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel

This does not prevent the application programmer from setting it in the program, but if it is not explicitly set this file will set it to what ever you want.


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