Hi Ashley,
>I've just installed Visual Studio 6 (minus the Java component) and now find my machine tries to connect to the Internet on startup and when launching most applications (even non-MS ones!).
In the README.HTM (or was it INSTALL.HTM) file on CD #1 you can find a registry key that has to be changed. It's related to DCOM.
Christof
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Christof