Page 2 - ASP wont work at all.

I disabled the script blocking from the Norton Antivirus 2003 (as you advised earlier). I also disabled Autoprotect (always in NAV) and shutdown ZoneAlarm (the firewall) but with the same result.

Yes, I’m running other SW packages like graphic suites, MS Office and VB6 Enterprise edition. This might have triggered some problems since the error message I get when I try to open the Component Services is “DTC was installed by the SQL server”.
I tried to uninstall the SQL server but with no success.
Unfortunately I’m quite new to XP so I'm not too sure about certain things. For example no, I'm not using NTFS. Should I change the C drive to that file system? What happens with the older programs if I do?
When I bought the computer (a few days ago), XP was preinstalled. I was asked to create a user that has administrator rights. Is this ok? Or else how should I activate the administrator user (it doesn't show at the Windows log on screen – there are just two users available, the user that I created the first time and a user created by the SQL installation program)?

No, I didn't run urlscan or the iis lockdown tool. I don't even know how to run them and what they're for.

Unfortunately, my mistake was not to install IIS the first time that I turned the PC on. I installed some software first so I don't know if the problem resides in these other SW (although this shouldn't happen, should it?).
I know that there is a restore utility that allows you to undo some installations but I don't know how to run it (is it called system restore?).
Can you please tell me how to do it?
I really wouldn't like to reinstall the whole OS.
The problem is that I use ASP with MS Access as well so if the Apache web server doesn't run that properly...

Cheers

You might look around www.iisfaq.com

FYI.

I eventually had to reinstall Windows XP Pro completely!
I had a feeling that the original installation had something wrong. For example I didn’t have the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop and I couldn’t copy it from the start menu.
I therefore think that I have to thank Acer if I wasted a very, very long time, energy and money over this issue.
Anyway, all’s well what ends well…

Thank you for your help.

I Just spend 3 hours with same problem (404 error when running ASP pages) and thanks to this forum I got some clues.

I was able to fix the problem, In my case I'm installing an ASP web application I have developed, my customer's server is a brand new Windows 2003 installed from factory. Internet Information Server was installed, howewer ASP Was NOT.

I found that If you go to the "Add or Remove programs in control panel" and click on windows components and there you select Internet Information services (IIS) and then click on button "Details" there is a subset of options that you may install or uninstall, if you go "deeper" selecting the "World Wide Web Service" option and clicking into the "details" button again you will find that "Active Server Pages" is an option (this is new in 2003!!!), in my case it was NOT INSTALLED. Despite the asp.dll was phisically in the windows/system32/... directory. So I only had to check (install) the ASP option and wait for windows to install this option.

I hope this can help all of you
Victor Ayala

gpt, try this link http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315296. note though that this was made for 2000pro. i have XP PRO so i took the risk as i was going to reinstall anyway. it worked. the problem is with COM+.

alex