Re: VS 2003 hangs after installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 ?

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From: Andrea Vincenzi (andrea.vincenzi_at_tiscali.it)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: 2 Sep 2004 01:53:33 -0700

I think I have found what was causing the problem. While I was trying
to make two of my computers talk to each other, one of the usual
Norton Internet Security 2004 pop-up windows appeared, telling me that
another system was trying to access the web server on my computer.

Usually when the request comes from an external system I say "block",
but in this case since the request came from a local system I said
"allow".

At this point an unexpected thing happened: the property window of a
folder, that I had requested about one hour before, appeared on my pc.
Since this (seeing properties of files and folders) was another of the
things that apparently didn't work after installing Windows XP SP2, I
thought that it might be connected to the behavior of Visual Studio,
and –BANG- it sure was!

I tried to start several Visual Studio applications in debug mode and
they work… so now maybe I can finally finish my work that has been
waiting for three weeks.
Here are some more details about the rule that was created by Norton
Internet Security:

Incoming TCP connection
Local address, service: (my_pc_name(192.168.0.1),http(80))
Remote address, service: (192.168.0.2,1039)
Process name: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe"

Please note that I have disabled the firewall that comes with Windows
XP SP2, and I continue to use Norton Internet Security 2004, as
suggested by the Symantec site. I haven't been able to do more testing
with firewall rules to determine exactly what is causing the behavior,
but I hope that his information will prove useful to other people who
have the same problem.

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