FIX: Contacting Web Server to Open Web Project Never Times Out

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This article was previously published under Q191560

SYMPTOMS

When trying to reopen your Web project after shutting down the Web server, you will get an hourglass that never seems to timeout, and you cannot cancel the search for the server.

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CAUSE

The Web server is still running, but extremely slow.

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194022/EN-US/ ) INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194295/EN-US/ ) HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

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