same here :)

must be the season for winsocks - ive had about 20 in the last 3 days!

Yeah, had this discussion in work the other day and BB customers have far more problems with winsocks, so it could be to with some popular software they all use, zonealarm or kazza maybe, just an observation :shrug:

I would say either the old version of kazaa or zonealarm

I had problems whenever I had either on my machine under 9x...

The problem vanished when I switched to K-Lite and Sygate Pro

[edit] I DID notice though that it happened mainly when there was an XP machine linked in...

removing the QoS packet scheduler from the XP box certainly helped anyway

So what's the concensus? Should a Win 2K user upgrade to 6 or 5.5? I'm still using 5.01 but I don't think that it's safe enough...

i used 6 on WIN ME when i had it had to reformat once because i screwed it up but on the whole 6 has been the fastest and reliable for me

on win xp now though i tweaked ie6 and its fast effective and best looking browser for pages IMO

Go for it, I used IE6 on 2K for ages without any problems before i finally gave in thinking there could not be a more stable OS than 2K and im glad to say XP has proved me wrong.

I used to think 2K was solid but XP is Bullet Proof.

:D

Had my BB installed just over a week ago, so I would presume my isntall disk is the latest version - the readme file says Version 1.8

As far as I can tell there is only IE 5.5 on there.

Thanks for that Mikey B:)

As Lord Nikon pointed out, if IE6 is already installed (standard with XP or via Windows Update) then the installation leaves it "as is", I was just interested to know which version of IE was on the newer disks - cheers again.:tu: