Thank you, thank you, thank you... It was driving me nuts!! :)

>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