Hi Talha,
Welcome to Javaranch.
If all the steps in installing Tomcat have been followed, Tomcat should come, when you call him. If he doesn't, then we have chances, the configuration being wrong.
Any ways, check all these steps and try starting again.
1. Set the environment variable CATALINA_HOME to your Tomcat folder
say c:\Tomcat(Better to delete all the 4.1.stuff....to avoid chaos
due to spaces)
2. Set JAVA_HOME variable to the JDK folder.
Say c:\jdk1.3 or something
3. Set CLASSPATH variable to %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib\servlet.jar;
4. Set Path variable to ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%CATALINA_HOME%\bin;
Hope this helps you. Have a nice time.
Cheers,
Ram.
[ September 01, 2005: Message edited by: Ramaswamy Srinivasan ]