>>- I've never seen "Virtual Machine Network Services" before. Is this something that comes with VMWare or equivalent? Are you running multiple VMs with multiple OSs simultaneously, sharing the hardware?
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>Just to followup on this...I decided not to remove Virtual PC from my system, but instead just to remove the protocol. I don't have Virtual PC running most of the time, and certainly not when I was having the problem with Localhost. Removing the VMWare protocol from the network card didn't change the problem. I've decided to just use 127.0.0.1 instead localhost from now on.
Up here in Canada, we have names for people who give up that easily < beg >
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Regards. Al
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