Hi Mike,

Thank you so much for your efforts on this particular issue. I've deleted the authentication key from web.config, deleted active directory folder from desktop modules.. deleted any traces of AD from following tables Assemblies, Authentication, Packages, Module Settings.. But still  I could not install the new authentication system and i got the same error "Error loading files from temporary folder - see below".. I think when it tries to create a back up of web.config it fails.. but it has all the read/write permissions.. this is something weird! i could not figure out..

Here i've listed the current records in dnn database.

Assembly Table

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Assembly ID Package ID Assembly Name Version

2 1 Interop.ActiveDs.dll 01.00.00

3 2 DotNetNuke.Authentication.LiveID.dll 01.00.00

4 3 DotNetNuke.Authentication.OpenID.dll 01.00.00

5 3 Janrain.OpenId.dll 01.00.00

Authentication Table

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Authentication ID Package ID Authentication Type IsEnabled SettingsControlSrc LoginControlSrc LogoffControlSrc

1 -1 DNN TRUE DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/DNN//Settings.ascx DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/DNN//Login.ascx

3 2 LiveID TRUE DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/LiveID/Settings.ascx DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/LiveID/Login.ascx DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/LiveID/Logoff.ascx

4 3 OpenID TRUE DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/OpenID/Settings.ascx DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/OpenID/Login.ascx

Thanks again for your efforts.

Saran

I'm starting to bang my head against the desk here. Under ideal conditions the next line would be: [QUOTE][L]Info [L]Config file updated - web.config [QUOTE] Which as far as I can tell from what you've posted does happen.

I have to take a step back from this and think of another way of approaching the problem I'll give it another shot either this evening to tomorrow.