Known issue. Reinstall FB and uncheck the control panel applet.
You'll be able to open the cp then.
Dan

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Robert martin <rob@...>
wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> We had a users Vista business laptop in yesterday and install FB

1.5.3

> and ODBC dirver. These seemed to work fine, however whenever we

opened

> the control panel Explorer crashed and needed to be restarted. I

don't

> know which caused the problem but removing both FB and ODBC fixed

the

> problem. We couldn't test further as the user needed their laptop

back.

>
> Is there a known issue with either of these apps?
>
> --
> Rob Martin
> Software Engineer
>
> phone +64 03 377 0495
> fax +64 03 377 0496
> web www.chreos.com
>
> Wild Software Ltd
>