Hi

This behavior occurs because setup is attempting to install Personal Web
Server on Windows 2000. To date, I have not found a way to de-select PWS as
an option (even if Visual InterDev is not selected as an installed
component) so I found a way around this by taking the following actions:

1) Create a new folder under the root of any local hard drive that has at
least 680 MB of free space

2) Using Windows Explorer, copy the entire contents of the Visual Studio
CD-ROM to the new folder

3) Locate and rename any instances of wpie15.exe that exist in the new
folder containing the Visual Studio setup files. Make a note of the
locations, as we will need this information in later steps

4) Copy notepad.exe from the \WinNT\System32\DLLCache folder to the
directory containing the renamed wpie15.exe from Step 3

5) Rename this copy of notepad.exe to wpie15.exe

Once these steps have been performed, log on to the local machine as
Administrator, then shut down any services, processes, and applications
that may interfere with the Visual Studio setup process.

Lastly, run setup.exe from the folder on the local hard drive to install
Visual Studio 6.

NOTE: Setup may generate a syntax error when it gets to the stage where it
lanches "wpie15" (notepad), but you may simply want to click "OK" to ignore
this error. Setup will proceed despite this, and complete successfully.

Cheers,
Tim Macaulay, MCSD
Microsoft Visual Studio Setup & Deployment

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