At 12:05 PM 21/07/2006, you wrote:

>After using the installer on Win2k Professional, Firebird will not start.
>
>Using the applet to try starting the service, I get "Overlapped I/O
>operation is in progress". The title bar of this dialog says:
>"Error Code 997 raised in Service failed to complete its startup
>sequence".

This means the service is already running!

If you don't want it to start automatically, modify the settings via
the Services applet under Administration Tools.

./heLen