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>The error usually appears when I change or move an item on the Start Menu

Could you elaborate a bit on this process. Are you dropping, or removing, a shortcut on the desktop START button?

The desktop settings go with the user name. Have you changed your logon user name?

Pretty typical for a clean install. Run msconfig and enter the startup tab and disable msmsgs, that should quiten ms messenger.

Snoop around in the XP forum.

A quick look at your configuration shows it is no kludge. It ought to work.

As for Norton S-W2002, I have no experience with it, but got burned with S-W2000 and Norton Personal firewall on W2k before I upgraded, so that ended that chapter.

I support three different workgroups with similar router/hub configs and mix of PCs, except that none are wireless. So am mystified why yours worked, then stopped.

Netbios? On the XP you might explore Network Connections>LAN nic, right click>Properties>Select TCP/IP then Properties>General Tab>Advanced>WINS, then check that LMHosts Lookup is on, and check the options for Netbios.

Good luck.

I am intrigued by the kludge you mentioned in the first post:
A switch? Is this a hub?
A router, or a hub/router?
The XPs travel
There was some sort of dial-up encounter?
It once worked!

Woody has written about his traveling configuration, two XP laptops (Woody’s XP for Dummies – page 702), wherein he carries a short crossover cable and hooks the two laptops together, peer-to-peer, to swap/backup files. You might try this on your traveling laptops to see if they talk. The crossover cable costs about $5US.

Re Norton system works on the XPs, do you really need this?

Any Norton products running on the XP, other than Norton 2002 anti virus?

Have you tried enabling netbeui on your NICs. Search this forum for recent postings on netbeui, and read KB Q301041

The quick way is to load the old Works3 application on the new box, open each file individually with old Works3, then copy and paste each file into a blank page of Works5. That is, old ‘wps’ files will paste into new word processor pages, old ‘wdb’ files will paste into new database pages, and old ‘wks’ spreadsheet files will paste into new spreadsheet pages. Column headings may be lost in this translation, but can be re-entered.

Another route on the wdb/wks files is to open with the old W3 then ‘save as’ comma delimited, or tab delimited, then import to the new.

This would be a good time TRASH all the old (and new) Works stuff, and get into the 21st century with something like Office 2000/2002.

I seem to recall that XP likes static IP addresses for peer-peer nets in the range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254

Quite a kluge you have there. I would enable NetBEUI on all, and disable all Norton products and firewalls, and then try to get some local network stability. You can add back good virus checkers individually later.

No problem with my ZIO! reader.

Does SWMBO know you got hooked?

That’s a cute dog,but perhaps too ‘fat’ for ‘s pics and sigs limits.

Have you tried that ole NETbeui