BrowserHawk is automatically initialized the first time a BrowserHawk object is created in your scripts after your web services or application is started. Under some situations, such as before installing an upgrade to BrowserHawk, you may wish to uninitialize BrowserHawk.
Tip: Do not confuse uninitializing BrowserHawk with uninstalling BrowserHawk. Uninitializing just removes BrowserHawk from memory if already loaded. Whereas uninstalling BrowserHawk removes the software permanently from your computer.
The specific steps to uninitialize BrowserHawk are dependant on your system configuration. Follow the instructions below accordingly.
Important Note: When stopping the services as instructed below, it is important to stop them using the Control Panel Services applet, not Microsoft Management Console (assuming IIS is your web server).
If you are using Microsoft IIS/PWS 3.0:
Stop the World Wide Web Publishing service.
If you are using Microsoft IIS/PWS 4.0 and higher
Stop the IIS Admin service (this will also stop the World Wide Web Publishing service).
If you are using Macromedia ColdFusion or ColdFusion MX:
Stop the Macromedia ColdFusion services
Stop the appropriate web service as defined above.
If you are using any other web server:
Stop any services associated with your web server software.
Note: The above steps remove BrowserHawk from memory. BrowserHawk will automatically reload itself after the web services are restarted the first time a web script or application creates a BrowserHawk object or one of its related classes.
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