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I'm pretty sure that Windows XP comes with a newer version of the HTML Help control than MSDN for Visual Studio 6.0 does. It should allow you to continue the installation after acknowledging the useless message box.

Better to much solutions as no solution :) LPCTSTR Dutch = TEXT("Double Dutch :-)");

simply disable the offending service in the Services MMC. Hope this helps ... Chris

Like all my friends tell me, before you make any major changes, Backup EVERYTHING. But in this case you should make an image of you machine before you start. Best of luck, operating system overhalls are not for the faint of heart.

Thanks Matt, Any help at all would be great or even just point me in the right direction. Done alot of searching on this and not much success. /Shane.

Roger Wright wrote: Has he got that stupid simplified sharing enabled, the one that installs by default? I ran into that on the first XP network I built. Unless you disable that crud and create local user accounts and passwords on each machine, all access to shares is done using the Guest account. Since the account is usually disabled, this rarely works. Probably as it was a fresh install of windows. Hes in a class right now, I'll check with him when he gets back. Matt Newman Sonork: 100:11179 "Whoa, that ruled! What function key do I gotta press to get that to happen again?" - Strong Bad

Yep, my roommate and I regularly face toward Redmond and shake our fists in frustration over the screen resolution issue. What part of "Everyone has different eyes" don't they understand? :rolleyes: Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

No sweat, I understand. Why do you think I haven't had time to try it either? :-D They just told me the other day that I have to fix a bug in the in-house software app, do a full software audit of our place, build a database to store the audit information, and build an installshield installer for our web app. All by the end of next week. Along with all my admin duties. Now I am just waiting for someone to come by and ask me when the new Exchange server will be ready to deploy. :rolleyes: Can we say swimming upstream? :) Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

Ista wrote: one thing you mentioned Terminal Services where as he installed Remote Desktop. In my situation is that identical? In your situation that is identical. The server is a "Terminal Services" server. Your client is a "Terminal Services" client that is now called "Remote Desktop Connection", probably because Microsoft likes us to be confused. ;p I actually expected them to rename "Terminal Services" server to "Remote Desktop" server in Win2003, but according to Matt they haven't. *shrug* Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

Thanks for your advice. I finally got IIS running on my XP Home machine.                        Go to my home page

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Not really sure, perhaps because many programs expand to take up more memory and fail to let go of it again later? (*cough* MSWord *cough*) :) Seriously though, it doesn't seemto be that way on my machine, the "Mem Usage" which shows the total amount currently in use is going up and down as my machine runs. Not just when I open or close programs either, when I close one of three web pages I have open it goes down even though the browser does not actually unload. What OS are you using? (Win2k here) Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

No problem, take a look below. :) Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

Sorry, none that I have noticed so far. I am still in controlled depolyment of SP4, but I have 6 servers running it and about 30 workstations and so far no funny business. Jason Jystad Cito Technologies "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." --Larry Wall

After some more searching I came across the answer. According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 322913 it seems that WM_TIMER messages somehow stop being sent to programs. I presume that IE etc. uses the WM_TIMER to trigger drawing of the page, and without them only causing forced re-draws (i.e. invalidating the window in some way) was getting the content to display. However, merely applying the hotfix did not work as some of my core dlls were newer than the ones in the hotfix and thus didn't get updated. So I then tried SP4 which is the first service pack which includes the fix. Once SP4 was installed the problem went away :) So if it happens to you then I would try the hotfix first, and if that doesn't work try SP4 (and don't forget the Blaster patch after that). Thanks for your help, R

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