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	PWS 4.0 Start-up Problems

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	Summary:
	I am having problems with PWS 4.0: it sometimes
	runs at start-up (i.e. PWS is running and started
	allowing connection to your local website AND the
	pwstray.exe icon is in the system tray) and
	sometimes it doesn't (i.e. PWS is not running and 
	there is NO pwstray.exe icon in the system tray).
	What do I do to fix this?

	NOTE: This file refers to the version of PWS 4.0
	which is supplied on the Windows 98 SE CD-ROM. It
	*may* also apply to other versions of PWS but I
	CANNOT guarantee (or test) that.
	
	
	Solutions:
	I have trawled the internet for an answer to this
	problem. There seem to be a number of *solutions*,
	the bottom line, however, being that PWS 4.0 has its
	faults, and this is one of them.
	
	
	(1) Conflicting application at start-up

		Someone suggested that it may be due to a
		conflicting application also running at
		start-up and suggested systematically
		checking through your start-up files in
		MSCONFIG (START | Run; type MSCONFIG; click
		OK)
	
	(2) OLE older version

		Another suggestion was that it was due to a
		problem with an older OLE file having been
		installed by another program. The solution
		was to REINSTALL PWS 4.0. 
	
	(3) Registry Tweaks
	
		Shane Fowlkes in the newsgroup  
		news:microsoft.public.frontpage.client
		in 1999 suggested the following: 

		"speaking from much (unfortuante) experience 
		here...Assuming you're using PWS4, sometimes 
		it just quits working/launching, no matter 
		how many times you reinstall it.

		To make it start "again", there are 2 fixes:

		(A) Edit your Registry (at your own risk):
			The MTS installation put in a registry entry into

				hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\
					windows\currentversion\runservices:

			mstdc with a value of "msdtcw -start". I changed 
			it to "msdtcw.EXE -start".
			Now MTS starts just fine

			NOTE: There was a comment elsewhere that MS-DTC
			is not necessary for Windows 9x machines and that
			disabling it completely in MSCONFIG will have no
			knock-on effects for either Windows 98 or PWS 4.0.
			
		(B) Create a Shortcut:
			If you make a shortcut out of pws.exe and 
			changes it's properties so that the command line 
			is 
		
				pws.exe /start 
			
			and then put the shortcut in your startup directory 
			it should start every time you start/restart
			your computer."


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	Written by Gareth J M Saunders, Thursday 24 January 2002
	gareth@garethjmsaunders.co.uk
	http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk