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Joe…

There is no BILL in that list…only vaiations of SAM (the old user) & other stuff.

MF

Joe…

The new employee logs in under the old employee’s account…SAM. I would imagine the groups are Administrators & Users (as they are the only two listings under Groups in User Accounts). Thanks.

MF

Hans & Doc…

Thanks.

Revo worked…the XP Install CD didn’t (there seemed to no ‘Repair’ option…maybe if I select ‘Install’ it will detect an OS on the machine & then give me the repair option…I don’t know…)…

…but…

as we go forward w/ setting up this workstation, we are finding more & more problems associated w/ the old user restricting any future users on this machine (as this individual left our office under not the best of circumstances). The most pressing example is the fact that we cannot add the new employee as a user under a new account (so as to then delete the old user’s account).

When I open User Accounts, it shows the following:

Administrator………SAM…………………………Administrators
ASPNET………………SAM…………………………Users
sam…………………….OFFICE-DOMAIN…….Administrators

(this is also how everyone else’s User Account appears, on the other PC’s in our office).

I attempted to create a new account for the new employee by entering Administrator as the ‘User Name’…BILL (new employee)…as the ‘Domain’…& Administrators as the ‘Group’ (to match the first line in the Users window listing…but I keep getting an error message that reads:

The user could not be added due to the following error: the trust relationship between this workstation & the primary domain failed.

Now…our office manager tells me the new employee was added to our office domain as BILL; & that it was successful…so…I’m not sure where we are going wrong.

Could use some help…I want to try & fix the problem prior to calling in an IT guy.

Thanks,

mark4man

Actually…

I have another quick question:

I’ve been going thru my Services & turning them off as per Black Viper‘s recommendations (& subsequently checking to make sure I’m not f’in anything up in the process)…& was wondering:

…is the Indexing Service Microsoft recommends turning off in this way:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899869/en-us%5B/url%5D

the same as this Indexing Service?:

http://www.moonjams.com/Indexing Service_OS Drive.jpg[/url]

&…in the Services list itself (Run > services.msc)…I’m still listed as Manual (after using MS’s method, above). Same goes for the box being checked in my ‘Disk Properties’ dialog.

Is Microsoft talking about something else?

Thanks again,

mark4man

Thanks, Joe

Joe (& everyone)…

I thought about it again; & realized I had cleaned & defragged prior to installing SP3 (the memory ain’t what it used to be…lemme tell ya’). So I did it again; & I’m now loading at about the same time duration as SP2.

This is still kinda slow, to my liking…so I summoned up ‘Task Manager’ (per Joe’s recommendation…didn’t need a shortcut…I hit Ctrl > Alt > Delete as soon as I could see desktop); & the process using up the most memory was avgrssvc.exe, fluctuating at 88 megs & above. AVG is my anti-virus program, by Grisoft.

So…I guess I can live w/ this current speed; & my menus do seem to be faster. The alternative would be to somehow run that (& a couple other AVG services) only when on the internet…but I have no idea how to do that; & it seems like it would be a pain in the butt anyway.

Thanks again, everybody…

mark4man

BTW – Event Viewer shows (at startup) loading of my audio driver, e1express, Tcpip; & a small bunch of Service Control Managers. This is normal, eh?

Hans…

So…what do I do…quickly open TM as soon as I notice sluggish behavior?

But how will that help me w/ knowing what’s causing the super slow boot-up time…cant get into TM ’till the OS loads, right? And even then…would it indicate the problem?

Thanks,

mark4man

no such animal on my machine

follow-up…I have a OLK3B under C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersTemporary Internet Files…but I just did a search of the entire drive for all *.pubs; & have nothing (related to that file). Oh, man

YES…(Other) is checked & ‘Display a notification’ is unchecked.

MF

Joe (& everybody)…

Just following up here…this is still the case:

http://www.moonjams.com/HP_ScriptError.jpg%5B/url%5D

…& script debugging is disabled in IE

any further ideas, or should I just live w/ this?

Thanks,

mark4man

Thanks, Joe

MF

Joe…

I will…I’m trying that in a minute or so…but another quick question first:

Now that I have .NET 3.0…my Add/Remove Programs looks like this when populated:

http://www.moonjams.com/NET.jpg%5B/url%5D

Looks like 2.0 came along for the ride when I got 3…but can I now safely delete 1.1 & its HotFix?

Thanks,

MF

UPDATE: Script debugging IS disabled in IE.

OK…installing the latest .NET Framework worked…thanks very much !!!

So now…I’m left w/ this (a script error of sorts):

http://www.moonjams.com/HP_ScriptError.jpg%5B/url%5D

Any ideas as to how & rid myself of this remaining error ???

Thanks again,

mark4man

John…

If I download/install SP3…that will also give me the latest .NET version, right?

Thanks,

mark4man

Hans…

That works !!!

Thanks very much,

mark4man