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>>>>Sergey,
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>>>>This itself won't place the option on the context menu for the desktop (or other "New" menus). That's why you need to add the registry entry.
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>>>That's correct but you can create "Microsoft DataLink Object" this way w/o making changes to the registry.
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>>Sure, but the question involved getting to the "New" menu, that's why I mentioned it.
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>The question actually was "What happened to my MS Datalink Option?" and nobody answered it. :)

< bg >OK, how about this for a SWAG? Remember SP4? That was the first time I recall this coming up. Further, I seem to remember that MDAC 2.5 was involved and had to be installed. All of a sudden, this option was gone. Probably the same thing happend with SP5 (which I seem to think was involved here).

How's that.:0)