OK. It was just a thought.

That dialog really takes forever to fill, doesn't it? (Or not fill in your case). It's even slower than the list of non-system installed programs. It must be churning through the whole registry.

Good luck!

>I thought the same thing :) Turnerd UAC back on, rebooted, tried again but still the dialog remains blank. It dispays the dialog, pauses while it presumabley tries to find the features to turn on/off, then displays a blank list box and the buttons become enabled so that I can click OK or Cancel.
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>>Could this be an issue with UAC? Maybe it only shows Windows features the user is authorized to monkey with. I notice on my Vista machine that the UAC shield icon appears to the left of "Turn Windows features on or off." I have UAC turned off so don't know the full ramifications.
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>>>Thanks for these links but although I have found the correct dialog to turn Windows features on/off the dialog just comes up empty! Nothing is shown at all, not IIS but also nothing else either!
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>>>I'm not sure if that's the way this laptop came installed or what ... might have to install and use Apache instead.
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>>>>Jos,
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>>>>This might help:
>>>>http://www.west-wind.com/webconnection/docs?page=_22f0xkbmq.htm
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>>>>IIS is installed on all versions of Vista and Windows 7. I can't remember the details exactly, but I think on Vista Home Basic you can't configure it explicitly. All other versions however do support it and I believe Windows 7 does as well on all versions.
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>>>>+++ Rick ---
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>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>Historically when developing websites I always uploaded my development work to a web server and tested on the web server itself. Then made corrections and re-loaded my work to the web server. If I want to develop a new website on my own laptop then I assume I would need to install IIS on it in order to test how it works. Is that right? If so, is there a downloadable IIS installer package for Vista?
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>>>>>Thanks
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>>>>>Jos