I've been having trouble getting a clean install of IIS5.1 on my XP Pro
SP2 system. When I install it and go to localhost, the main page starts
fine, but the IIS help page won't open - I get:
Error Type:
Server object, ASP 0177 (0x800401F3)
Invalid class string
/iishelp/iis/misc/default.asp, line 12
When I look in the code, (which is - surprisingly to me - located under
the Windows folder hierarchy instead of under Inetpubs) I see that the
line is trying to create an instance of MSWC.BrowserType.
When I look in Regedit, I see that I have entries for both
MSWC.BrowserType and MSWC.BrowserType.1. Furthermore, almost every MSWC
entry has a .1 companion. I have no idea whether or not this is normal.
My MSWC.BrowserType entry looks like this:
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSWC.BrowserType
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/25/2005 - 11:23 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: MSWC.BrowserType
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSWC.BrowserType\CLSID
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/25/2005 - 11:23 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: {0ACE4881-8305-11CF-9427-444553540000}
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSWC.BrowserType\CurVer
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/25/2005 - 11:23 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: MSWC.BrowserType.1
My BrowserType1. entry looks like this:
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSWC.BrowserType.1
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/25/2005 - 11:23 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: MSWC.BrowserType
Key Name: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MSWC.BrowserType.1\CLSID
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/25/2005 - 11:23 AM
Value 0
Name: <NO NAME>
Type: REG_SZ
Data: {0ACE4881-8305-11CF-9427-444553540000}
I've installed and uninstalled IIS several times; ditto for FP
extensions both 2000 and 2002.
thanks for any help you can provide.