1. Insert the WIN 98 CD

Insert the WIN 98 disk into your CD drive. Click "Browse This CD". Back to top

2. Double-click the "add-ons" folder.

3. Double-click the "pws" folder.

4. Double-click the "setup.exe" file. Back to top

5. Initializing Setup screen appears.

6. Click the "next" button. Back to top

7. Click the "Typical" button.

8. Accept the defaults. Click the "Next" button. Back to top

9. An installation progress screen appears.

10. If the MTS setup error screen appears click OK.
The PWS will still work correctly. Back to top

11. Again click OK and ignore.

12. Installation is complete just click "Finish". Back to top

13. Again click OK and ignore.

14. Finalizing settings screen appears. Back to top

15. When the "Restart Computer" screen appears select "NO". Instead go to START/SHUTDOWN and select SHUTDOWN from the dialog box. You need to do a hard boot to complete the installation.

16. When you restart the computer the standard "Updating System Settings" box appears. Back to top

17. System tray icon.

After the installation of PWS, you will find a PWS icon on your desktop and probably a PWS small icon in the system tray on the right lower corner of your desktop. Double click any of them to bring up the PWS control window. If the PWS is already running then you will see an option 'Stop PWS'. But if PWS has been stopped and is not running then you will see the option to 'Start PWS'. Since we want to check that PWS has installed successfully and everything is running optimally, you should start the PWS if it is not already running. If it has started on its own then don't do anything.

Now we want to check if PWS is running correctly and Active Server Pages are running or can be run. Open your Internet browser e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer. In the URL box enter http://127.0.0.1 and press enter. If all is well then you will see a default page generated by PWS. When you install PWS it also sort of builds a default web site on your system, and that is what we tested here. If you can see some page then PWS is running correctly and we are done. But if PWS is running and you cannot see any page by entering the above URL then you might need to restart your computer and then start PWS again and then open your browser and enter the URL as given above. Hopefully everything will be all right now. Installation of PWS is very easy and most of times everything is done without any problems.Back to top

You cannot see ASP pages just by opening them in browser without the 'http' protocol. You have to append http://127.0.0.1/ before the page name (or type "http://LOCALHOST") and address to see it running on your own local computer. For now you have successfully installed PWS and now we are ready to create some simple Active Server Pages.