I did find that and it was pretty unhelpful. It seems clear that there is an interaction between the KVS Tool and this "Data Transport Service Control" program (DTSC) for whatever reason. It only comes up when attempting to run the KVS tool. If I repeatedly cancel the install, the Tool will start and data is apparently retrieved, but can not be displayed.

My question was directed more to others who may have seen this same problem and not at the developer of this very good program. There is no way you can account for every last vagrant program or service running under WinXP and I don't expect that. I did look in the windows components of Add/Remove programs but it was not listed.

I forgot to mention that I had the problem under 2.6.x, and tried installing 2.7 to see if that would take carte of it. Unfortunately it did not and I made the original post. Thinking about uninstalling and reinstalling to see if that helps. I have no idea if the DTSC program has other applications on my laptop or not. I wouldn't be surprised as there are some SAP interface programs that were installed since I last tried to run it.