Working with applets offline


Hello,
I have downloaded a web page with its applet extension and put into my
personal PC. Although I address my personal drive and a temp html folder, I
am unable to start this applet and view it in IE. Please help how to run a
java applets while offline in a non-network environment.
What did I do wrong?

(No parameters are driven by this applet!)

See below html code which runs applet.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1254">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<APPLET
code="howit.class"
codebase=c:\\html\howit.class
height="104%"
width="100%"
></APPLET>
</BODY></HTML>


See also below Java Console message.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: howit
at com/ms/vm/loader/URLClassLoader.loadClass
at com/ms/vm/loader/URLClassLoader.loadClass
at com/ms/applet/AppletPanel.securedClassLoad
at com/ms/applet/AppletPanel.processSentEvent
at com/ms/applet/AppletPanel.processSentEvent
at com/ms/applet/AppletPanel.run
at java/lang/Thread.run
.