I downloaded the latest drupal from the cvs using the command below.

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal checkout drupal

I installed Drupal 6 today on my windows machine in office. After creating the first user I tried to access the Administration Page, but a blank page was returned. I searched google to fix this problem and got this link.

http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/content/2008/08/22/drupal-6-slow-administ...

Go to system table and change the value of 'status', 'bootstrap' and 'throttle' to 0


update system s
set s.status=0, s.throttle=0, s.bootstrap=0
where filename = 'modules/update/update.module'

Now you should be able to access the ./admin area :)