Hi, Ed!

Here goes my answer to your problem...

>To control a COM, use MTS. With it, you can clean it, recompile the dll, >refresh it, and continue with it, without restart your computer. You can find >more information about it in a Rick Strahl's article, in www.west-wind.com
>The article is called "MTS with VFP", or something like that.

>Hope to Help
>[]'s

I'm using VFP COM components with win95+MTS+PWS+ASP, based on the tip above, and it's working fine. That's the right solution, instead of stop/star pws...
I hope this help you. And I advise you to read Rick's Articles about VFP COM and MTS; it really helps me a lot.

Best Regards!