Sorry, but you probably haven't noticed too many people here doing development work under Win 98. You've found one of the reasons why not.

PF


>I've exhausted all of the research avenues I can think of and still, I cannot create an out-of-process component using ASP and Personal Web Server. I've found plenty of help *IF* I was running Internet Information Server, but I'm not. I'm going through a tutorial running PWS on Win 98 and I continue to get the following error message:
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>Excel Sample
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>Server object error 'ASP 0196 : 80040154'
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>Cannot launch out of process component
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>/myweb/time2.asp, line 8
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>Only InProc server components should be used. If you want to use LocalServer components, you must set the AspAllowOutOfProcComponents metabase setting. Please consult the help file for important considerations.
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>This error occurs with the following ASP code:
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>oExcel = Server.CreateObject( 'Excel.Application' )
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>Can anyone tell me how to configure *** PWS *** to allow out-of-process components?
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>TIA