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UPDATE : I tried installing Windows 2000 "Gold", but it kept going blue-screen, and for some reason, after a few logins, every time I would try to get to "localhost" (or my fully qualified domain name) I would get redirects to "http.com" for no reason I was able to search and find. I was able to confirm that Windows 2000 AND XP both have the same ImageInfo: problem mentioned here as well; I wound up upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate (all other things being the same) and the ImageInfo: problem is GONE! Hallelujah! ... also the problem I was having with my chat bar seems to have been fixed at the same time. Thanks again for all your help!

Yeah Dave, I just edited the original post to make item 13. about the File Upload test ... I knew I forgot to note down something important (but actually irrelevant) that I had tried ... File Upload test shows no errors, just like everyone else with this same problem.

I have pretty much narrowed it down to an XP problem ... ImageInfo is a function only available in Comctrl32.dll versions 6.0 and newer and XP uses versions prior to 6.0 so the function is not supported ... AND XP has never fixed this read-only problem ... I have been all over many forums and apparently Bill G(H)ates' company doesn't care about fixing XP errors, despite the fact that XP POSReady is still being "supported" for "upgrades" ... POSReady is really for cash registers, not for file serving, so I suppose I have no other option but to use Win 2000 for now ... XP is sort of a stop-gap measure between Windows Milennium and .. Windows Seve(eri)n and newer, which I hate ... sort of a way to try to make up for the stupidity of Windows ME.

I will probably have to 'downgrade' to Windows 2000 Server (Gold Edition) (which I love); items 14 and 15 on my list are getting pretty tiresome. Thanks again for your help, and again, feel free to reply again if you have any other ideas (although if I don't get a solution using XP in the next couple of days I will Go Gold) !


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Originally Posted by Dave

Rather tricky situation, but it's definitely a file permission problem somewhere.
Have you tried the file upload test function in the AdminCP of vBulletin? What does that return?