Thread starter, don't mind if I borrow your thread? I have a somewhat similar problem, except that my problem comes when I try to build a program. Once I compile the code and click the build button, it just displays the text "Linking" in the bottom window without showing the result (e.g. 0 error, 0 warning). If I click the "Stop building" button, nothing happens. I can't quit the program and have to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to exit. Can anyone help me here?

that program works for your code
but does NOT understand the code

#include<iostream>
void main(){
                cout<<"Hello";
}

Jcsy, your school is still amazingly using a retired compiler. Your Borland compiler must not be earlier than 5.5 (not IDE or for IDE version must not earlier than 6.0).  Otherwise you are writing code that won't work in current era of C++.

I am under the assumption that the your source code couldn't be linked properly. This is very hard to solve as there isn't any error message. You know your source code has been compiled successfully but for some reason they can't be linked.

Have you tried on another PC with a different C++ compiler?

You used what and what works fine?

i used borlan loo.. 
haha... forgot to quote that dude post..   
my bad 

I'm starting c++ programming and i've used two compilers which were mentioned in this forum called Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition(free) and BloodShed DEV IDE(free) and i can't even compile a simple c++ code such as:

#include<iostream.h>
void main(){
                cout<<"Hello";
}

My college computer are using an old version of microsoft visual c++ but i dont know what version they are using and the new microsoft visual c++ 2005 express doesn't even seem to have a button to compile and run the program above which i've saved as a cpp file.