>It will create problems when installing many older applications, since the File Protection System will block application installs from overwriting system files, and the changes needed to make side-by-side DLLs and OCXs work will at a minimum require the installation program to write its desired components to new locations. The writeup in the last MSDN Newsletter gave a pretty good overview of compatibility issues; if you've lost your paper copy, it's available at msdn.microsoft.com/voices/news on the Web.

Hiya Ed,

Yeah, I read it and posted some of the information here. I was hoping that the article was on-line, but couldn't find it. Thanks for the info. Good article, with a lot of information. Now if I could only find time to install RC2< bg >.