Excerpted from "Microsoft's Visual C++ .NET Product Manager on Everett" Have the bugs in the IDE related to VC++ been squashed? What bugs are those again? Seriously though, we've done a lot of work to refine the IDE for C++ developers. It's not "all new" again, but we did fix a lot of problems with the project-build system, with the task list, and with dynamic help. Oh, and some of the resource-editor bugs that keep getting mentioned on CodeProject. I sure hope we got the majority of those. --- I'm specifically interested in knowing if issues related to Q217437 have been resolved. (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q217437) "Debugger Crashes on Breakpoint" that are not remedied by MS' suggested workaround ", close the Auto debug window before you hit the breakpoint. In some circumstances you might have to close the Watch debug window too." I have run into this problem quite a bit and it's NOT FIXED in the latest VS6 service pack. Can anyone comment on Everett's bundled debugger? Does anyone know of any specific efforts at MS to get at the root cause of this evil? Has the Everett debugger been improved because this is a real bummer. - cdr --- cdr@encapsule.com http://www.encapsule.com novus ordo seclorum

at the command prompt: netstat -an 5 will update a list of active IP connections every 5 seconds. You will find the worst offenders to be: a) real audio b) all IM apps --- cdr@encapsule.com http://www.encapsule.com novus ordo seclorum