Windows XP Service Pack 2

[gol]

Today I installed Windows XP Service Pack 2. On the first re-boot, it asked me if I wanted to allow FileMaker Pro 7 access to the Internet, and I responded "yes". But when I started FMP7 it took a longer than normal time to start, and informed me that it could not start the Instant Web Publisher - before FMP7 did, in fact, start - without, it turns out, IWP capability.

I then tried to share a database that had previously been shared, and it would not let me, giving me a pop-up error message saying that I could not share on the Internet because Instant Web Publishing had not been installed.

But when I checked the firewall section on XP's newly installed Security Console, FileMaker Pro was clearly listed as an application that had been allowed to communicate with the Internet.

Does anyone know what I have to do to make it work again. (IWP was fine before XP Service Pack 2!)

Thanks.

[Deep Thought II]

maybe... reinstall FM or disable window's firewall and get a 3rd party's firewall instead...

as far as i know.. ms firewall kind of blocks everything...

don't forget, the ultimate MS strategy for their end-user products is... "DO NOT LET THE USERS HARM THE COMPUTER"... to which they believe that the end-users are more harmful to computer systems than... the software itself.

p.s. sure, because i can use a hammer to smash the ******* MS box