Hi Dave, Thanks for getting back to me. I installed the same .NET Framework that came with my VB.NET . It's really odd. Vi

Hello, Never mind my question. I was being an idiot. The Settings is only activated for the Web Bootstrapping option. Thanks! Vi

Vi, Yes I was able to fix it. It turned out to be the ShowInTaskBar form property which I had set to False. Changed it to True and all is now as it should be. I used the False setting because I am minimizing the form down to the task tray rather than the task bar. Obviously the Windows O/S sees that and decides not to display the application icon during an ALT+TAB operation. I can live with that and work around it programatically. Thanks for your help. ...Steve

Excellent! Thank you so much Mike for taking the time to post this. I will most definitely do some digging. :)

i think the minimum requirement of memory for .Net is around 128 MB. So try increasing ur ram. this worked for me. i had initially 128 mb with a P4 2.4 MHZ, Win Xp. I upgraded the ram to 512 MB and now .Net runs pretty fast. rIsHaBh

Did you already try IconXP? Try for 30 days. Then find a crack on astalavista. But my advice is to buy ;)

Thanks so much for your response, Dave. I found out that the IIS was not even installed on this computer. I installed it and I'm up and running again. Yay! Vi