>Hi Ed,
> Ok, good, this clears something up for me--I now understand that this problem occurs only on Win 9x, not WinNT. In fact, my client who had an error is running Win95--I mistakenly thought it was WinNT.
> Can DCOM98 be executed against Win95? If so, I imagine that one should download DCOM98 rather than DCOM95 since DCOM98 can be used in all cases.

DCOM98 can be run against either Win95 or Win98, however, AFAIK, it can't be downloaded, and Microsoft has never clarified whether the file can be redistributed with an application. The question has been posed twice on UT to Robert green, and he has never answered the question, so I'm assuming for the moment that it is not redistributable. It should not be needed with a standard Win98 install, since IE4 installs with Win98, and IE4 contains the necessary DCOM components.