>>Jim,
>>I've had this problem. I installed 'DCOM98.exe' not 'dcom95.exe' and all is working well. I've been in contact w/MS tech support - their upper level support on this issue. They first told me to install IE4.01, I balked thinking some of my customers may not want to do this.
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>>So far the install works fine, but I only started working with it on Sep 23.
>>Robert
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>Hi Robert,
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>The install I sent out was going on Win95 machines, hence DCOM95, the info on Microsoft's DCOM website says that DCOM components are already in Win98 and Windows NT, however I'm having problems running my exe's on a new machine I bought this weekend with Win98 pre-installed. Maybe I need to install DCOM98 on it.
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>This seems so stupid and appears to relate to Microsoft's Internet strategy.
>
>Jim


Jim,
Just another thought. Yes, I was told dcom files were already installed on Window 98 - however, installing dcom98 produces a .log file. I looked at the log file vs what was already on my machine. The files were exactly the same except for one file. Windows 98 had a older version of one file. I don't recall which one though, and I suppose it could have been any number of installs on my machine that changed it. I have alot of development software on my machine. After installing dcom98 - one I seem to be more stable, and two it corrected the older version with the new one.

Robert