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Many questions about PWS; bugs

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by nrgeti 1 view

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I installed PWS from my Win98SE CD and it runs. However, there are lots of problems:

1. It is incredibly slow. The Help takes more than 15 minutes to come up if it does. Usually, PWS dies.

2. The Publish menu makes no sense and is incredibly slow to open folders. The Add window does not show any files but if I try to add one, it says the file already exists. What do you do after adding files? I don't see any other menu options to continue the publishing. All that is there is to Add/Removefiles.

3. The MSDN has dozens of articles about PWS such as the PWS icon should appear in the Control Panel, the Network menu and in Add/Remove programs. I don't have any of these and yet PWS does start up.

4. I have a working program that runs on my local PC in PWS but the Web Publishing Wizard refuses to publish to a real hosting site. I get errors like "Cannot automatically find a connection method" or "Header cannot be found"

Can anyone provide some helpful instructions?

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by edward clint

Before getting into nuts n bolts..
Usually when a program is extremely FUBAR'd as your PWS seems to be, it is wise to uninstall/reinstall it. That is often the fastest, most efficient course, and may spare you hours of troubleshooting headaches.
If you have not done so, I would advise it.

-Ed

by nrgeti

I had already reinstalled several times and got the performance up to excellent.

However, it is the rest of the questions that I am really interested in. They still stand. If you can give me more help, I will accept your answers on the next round.

by anthonys

I would first uninstall/reinstall. Then if you have SQL server running on your machine disable it when you install. There is the possibility of an error occuring when MTS is active. Also, do you have enough memory? What are you trying to do with PWS? Test out an intranet or asp pages? Hope this helped! Good Luck!

by nrgeti

This answer was already given by another person. Also I had replied that I did do a reinstall and PWS now has good performance.

I really was more interested in the remaining questions in my request. However, I have gotten a lot of help from another News Group so I am closing out this thread.

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