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Thanks for the links – there is one remaining question I see –
Multi / dual processor support – the chart shows Pro as having multi processor support but not home edition. No comments are made about the Media Center edition.

All of the newer boxes offer Intel or AMD dual processor support – I understand this is not same as true multiprocessor support, but does provide some of the benefits of multiple threads. I am assuming that media center has the support – since all of the new boxes seem to have the dual processors with the media center support. Is this a valid assumption?

Has anything been announced about a migration path to Vista from Media center? I am assuming that by the time the users have debugged Vista – there will be a migration path to Vista, but I could be all wet. Don’t want to wind up with another version of “Millenium”.

At this point I am guessing that Media Center will work out ok for me – based on my plans to stay with a single large box rather than a network. Who knows I might someday want to watch a football game while playing solitaire.

Tom

this is one of them

C:WINNTsystem32RUNDLL32.EXE C:PROGRA~1Yahoo!CommonYMMAPI~1.DLL,OpenURL http://mail.yahoo.com/?.redir=ymmapi9

This is the other

FilesYahoo!MessengerYahooMessenger.exe”

Tom

Thanks to eveyone who replied – I went thru all of the suggestions and didn’t get anything fixed. I currently have 3 reg cleaners on system – including one commercial one and none of them found any problems. I also have “CCleaner” on system and it runs daily.

Think a new box and win xp pro are required to get everything back to normal

Tom

thanks for the info – I was able to find several items that I did not even know were problems, BUT – I recreated the media player problem and consistently can force the “application internal error” at will – these errors do not show up in either the systems log or the applications log.

Tom

I could not get a clean install using the supplied CD right out of the box. It was missing files that were needed for the av stuff. Got a dialog box saying to reinstall. I sent everything back this past Monday – so don’t have the specifics available.

Tom

Went thru all the steps you listed and still got “internal application error occurred”

Is there any way to track doen which module got the error?

Am I correct in thinking media player9 is only thing available for win2K?

I read the threads indicated and checked out AVG and AVAST web sites. One of the problems I had with Norton was fighting with my use of firefox as a browser. Do you know if either of these have any problems with firefox. I didn’t see any specifics, but the AVAST site kept referring to IE as a browser – may just be the way they wrote things.

I neglected to say it is Norton Systemworks 2006.

I think I solved the problem. I used Wintasks Pro to id the specific culprit (gave a full path to the services.exe module that task mgr would not give). The specific module was in C:WINNT$NTupdateRollupPackinstall$services.exe. Wintasks pro let me kill the process which I could not kill using task manager. One of the responders mentioned a bogus copy of services.exe that probably had been hi jacked. Without really knowing the impact – I deleted the image in C:WINNT$NTupdate…

This evidently forced a reload from win32dll of the real services.exe. After a reboot everything seems to be working and the WINNT$NTupdateRollupPackinstall$services.exe entry disappeared from the wintasks Pro screen replaced by c:WINNTdll32services.exe

Now my box is running in the low teens utilization.

Thank you to every one who replied.

Tom

I just finished getting rid of everything I could think of – and rechecked task mgr – there were three occurrances of service exe in the task list
first was SERVICES.EXE with a PID of 256 0.0 % util (all in caps SERVICE.EXE)
next was services.exe with a PID of 1532 99% util ( was in small letters service.exe)
next was services.exe with a PID of 1628 0.0 % util

no idea why there are multiple or why they are differentiated by caps and small letters

Tom

Thanks for the info – I just moved and this post forced me to check where I was supposed to be getting the email notifications – needless to say they were going off to nowhere.

I am going to try the monitor and the recommended card

Tom

No problems – which is more than I can say for last 2 or 3

I renamed the npYState.dll in the Yahoo! shared directory – just have to see if that was the problem –

Thanks

I have always upgraded – with no major problems. I am not running the yahoo mail beta. I run win2K with all fixes applied

Tom