hrm... it's supposed to be my <insert what ever it's called here> isn't working anymore... but I typed the literal less than sign instead of the html equiv...
kthx

which version are you using?
becuase what you're trying to do is not supported by the first AE version

I upgraded from 2003 professional to 2003 EA latest edition.

What OS?
It is a good idea to wipe your disk and reinstall everything (after you back-up your projects) every six months or so.

it's on xp pro.
I cannot reinstall. way too much on here, divided across too many disks.

I got to the point where I have one disk with a pair of partitions or two disks.
One side has the OS and all the applications, the other side has all the data. If I need to reinstall I wipe out the system side and reinstall everything and my data is right where I want it.

it all started with that kind of setup. I used to have .net 2002 EA. then when 2003 came out, I got the professional edition. a little while later my disk's fat table became unusable, so i had to get a new disk. all of my program data is installed to a mass storage drive, and the base os was installed on a much smaller, much quicker disk. my last image i had was when I had vs.net 2002 so that when I got a new disk, I restored the previous image of the disk. when I tried to uninstall 2002 it failed because I had already uninstalled it before the drive crapped out, and installed 2k3 pro where it used to be(I still have 2002 on my list of software in my add/remove prog's util). attempts to reinstall 2k2 and then uninstall it also failed because it would only let me reinstall it, and that failed to install a legitimate usable setup... so I reinstall 2k3 pro and everything works like a dandy. that is until I decide that I want the EA edition (d*mn the luck). now I install 2k3 EA and my auto insert doesn't work again. (I had trouble with the pro doing the same thing for a while after restoring the disk). last time I combed through my registry and removed any key or value that contained visual studio or .net (it took a long time :S ) then reinstalled pro and it worked. this is a little different in that I uninstalled pro b4 I installed EA, so it shouldn't have that problem, but it does....
anywho, if anyone knows how to fix this (there's got to be a setting somewhere to fix this) let me know.

I too have a problem something similar to yrs. In my case nothing is coming after putting (.).
any suggestions?
Thx
VP

that's happened to me as well. I think re-installing vs.net fixed it though. either that or uninstalling, then re-installing did the trick. I cant remember.

You don't <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/">Back-Up</a>your files? Get another computer with XP Pro from a friend network them and move your files over, then wipe you disk and reinstall everything.

well, I don't know whats going on, but It's working now... I swear, there is some voodoo magik built into this thing...

You may have to learn Voodoo if your Hard Drive ever fails...

I run RAID 5 on system critical disks now.
I have about 5 different computers running here at the home and run several different types of servers off of them. I RAID all drives that could be most devastating on disk failure, and image those who's contents I'm just too lazy to reinstall everything on about 2,3 times a year. some items are redundant across servers also, so I'm not worried about "loosing" any data, just time and money.

And a diesel powered generator in the garage….