>>Funny thing was, even though the install, uninstall, reinstall sequence appeared to work, I'd get a error C0000005 when exiting the .exe file. After the dcom98.exe file install - it went away.
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>>I checked the dcom log file to see what files were installed. My attempt to include those files in the InstallShield install still failed to register the dll's properly, even though I had all the files included and sorted in the order of the log file.
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>The DCOM98 files require configuration and registry entries that you probably don't know about. You can't trust just installing the files...
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>If you use COM I guess that means you need to run either NT or make sure that IE 4.01 is installed on clients. Yuk...

Rick,
Tech Support at Microsoft (VFP) told me about this one. The dcom98.exe file is a setup file that installs and registers itself. I don't know about the configuration or registry as you mentioned. I only did as they suggested, installed it, refrained from rebooting right away to see what would happen when I did my InstallShield Installation and all my files registered. These included dynazip ActiveX and Catalyst SocketTools ActiveX Ras, MIME and SMTP ActiveX controls.

Previously - all of the ActiveX registration failed as did vfp6r.dll (if memory serves me right.) There were others that also failed. I rebooted and everything worked. This was on a brand new Windows 95 installation using diskettes when 95 first came out. I did not install IE 3.0 or 4.0. 3.0 came on separate diskettes in the box. I also did not install SP1 or any other patches believing this to be a worst case scenario.

If there are issues with dcom98 that are not addressed here, could you give me some feedback and I'll pass it along to Microsoft tomorrow?

Robert