You mean read that nonsense that displays on the installation screens? Only a novice would bother to read the instructions ;)

I will be re-formatting with XP Pro, though. Thank you for your answer.

Keith Payne

>What is your OS? I hope that it isn't XP Home! If you had read the first step of the installation, there was some instruction to install some other services from your Windows disks prior to install VS.Net.
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>>There are a ton of references in the samples and help files to creating Web Services and Applications on the "localhost". On my machine, I don't seem to have IIS. Is it included in the VS.NET Professional package? Is there something special I am required to do to install it?
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>>TIA,
>>Keith Payne