Thanks for your suggestions, I will look into them.
One assumption I made is since the install completed without incident the program was able to locate any needed resources.
Another assumption is since I received an error message from javaws then itself was being located - just lacking something else it needed.
Ran javaws from command prompt, received same usage message. Apparently using 64 bit 1.7.0_13, didn't see a Java folder in the 32 bit Program Files so would that be the problen? That 32 bit Java version is needed to run this? Java Web State 10.13.3.20-fcs.
I'm the administrator of the system, so privilege is not an issue
In Properties/Shortcut, verified that the .jar file was pathed correctly
Target -> "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaws.exe" -jar "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere\vmcc.jar"
Start in -> "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere\"