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You could add it in a logon script... www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Search for *.dmp.....as well.....I find some extremely large dumps, occasionally......... www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Be more specific, please....are your talking about IE? What search engine site? www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Yup, you are correct, sir, but as I was knocking around I found the truncated text fix on microsofts site, no problems on my three dc's after installing....btw, citrix clients may die a horrible death after sp2 is installed...and nothing seems to work around it, not the newest client, not adding...

Reset all security on both xp boxes. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313222 Re-enable admin shares if disabled, do not hide the xp boxes in network searches, if either of these are done... There TONS of things you can do to cause this issue with xp, all within group...

Ahhh....Winfix! one of my most valuable tools....glad it worked.... www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

ONE WORD. VERITAS. That is, if you can afford it....kinda pricey..but its reliability is top notch. veritas.com www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

Ive got 30-40 of "THOSE", at last count. www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

A standard technique for this that usually works for me, step by step is; Using spybot AND adaware, I remove all spyware-adware. Download an eval of system mechanic and clean all the junk. Remove ALL BHO's, and I mean all of them...manually. Clean the registry with system mechanic or another...

Just to be sure, make sure you repair your tcpip registry entries, and reset the stach, using say, winfix_v2.exe. But I also agree with the firewall issue, sometimes they just wont let go.. I would re-install, then uninstall, the firewall software, then run winfix, and reboot and try again...

Set the top drive on the cable to "MASTER" and the bottom to "SLAVE" , avoid CABLE SELECT, whenever possible.....it works for some, and can be a nightmare for others....make sure you have a proper cable in good condition.... www.deadcenter.us I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and...

try this; set your initial vid card to pci in the bios, if you have an onboard agp vid card, disable it, install a pci card and try again(only to get through the setup procedure) after installing, remove the pci, install the agp card, and reverse what you did before boot... btw, is this a...

Create a little subnet with all your different configs, identify what you need, and use active directory to modify those settings across the board..like I did..(and I have a 2000 domain!---((I imported the adm's)) The firewall enabled only SEEMS like overkill, in actuality, it has virtually...

Suddenly i start thinking about power save.....have you made ABSOLUTELY sure that power save is disabled both in the bios and windows? The reason ask is because I get a ton of work orders for this type of issue and its mostly power save....like the newer dells need to have the button pressed to...

RPC is failing, go to your services and restart RPC and the print spooler, look again for your printer. You need to install the latest service packs, and make sure you dont have an HP and a LEXMARK running thier respective services at the same time... There are lots of reasons for this, but...