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...website, this error (997 = ERROR_IO_PENDING) means that an operation I/O overlapped (or asynchronous) is in progress. See here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms681388%28v=vs.85%29.aspx I quote a text from this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686358%28v=vs.85%29.aspx: > When a function is called to perform an overlapped operation, the operation might be completed before the function returns. When this happens, the results are handled as if the operation had been performed synchronously. If the operation was not completed, however, the func...