illusionist

I am logged on as admin and guest accounts are disabled. I'm starting to believe it has sometihng to do with the limited options in MS XP home. I followed your recommendations ( logged in as admin ) and there is no option to to setting the permissions for that folder nor for that matter any other folders I have tried. I'm stumped for now! Again I have the other systems running w2k pro and xp pro and they work fine ( including all boot times and sign ins ) but this Dell Xp home version seems to have serious limitations when your used to home built pro versions. Untill I can afford an upgrade to XP pro ( cause of the registration requirement for service packs and win update ) I think I'm pooched for now but any other suggestions would be welcome. Thanks again

Yes I am on a network of 5 computers running through a Linksys befsr41 cable/DSL router and a linksys ezxs55w 5 port workgroup switch. The reason the switch is added is because the router only has 4 ports and I have two other portables that I use on this network at various times. All other systems start up fine. Even the system that is having a slow start at initial boot , jumps to life quickly after signing in during a hibernation period. It's just darn slow from a morning boot or a restart. Thanks

It appears no one knows the answer to this question so I will ask another. I am running into a long boot up time. Running from 4min56 sec - 5min 06sec everytime I boot up. Does anyone know of another boot analyser prog that will trace all related boot events so I can see if a driver is having problems or an app or a network component. This boot time is driving me nuts. Thanks

I am trying to run a prog called Bootvis from MS . When I try to run a file, a window comes up that says, I need to have write permissions on my desktop folder in order for the analysis to perform it's task. I'm running XP home ( yeah I know it sucks but can't afford the update to pro right now ) . Any Ideas how to enable write permissions on my desktop? Thanx in advance

I've been OCing since the 486/33 and the bottom line is that if you want to OC an electronic device with top notch componentry then you can safely reach a 10 percent increase without any normal problems.If you were to run a Sony piece of equipment as opposed to a noname piece the quality of each componant is directly proportional to the price of the unit you payed for. In simple terms the larger companys run the R and D projects and install resisters and such to tolerate the voltage peaks and drops and then spec their products higher to accomadate customer satisfaction over longer periaods of time. The copy cats of the industry take the spec of the high end manufactures and reduce resister and such specs to the bare minimum and in turn lower the meen time life of the componant and can sell it for much less. The bottom line is that if you have a high end piece of equipment you stand a better chance of OC than if you have a lower end componant. ( if you have ever studied electronics there are always a +- 5-10% tolerace on each pice of componant and the total of the guts is limited to the weakest componant.) There is always a lower life expectance when going over tested specs. Sorry if that was a little too long winded. L8tr illusionist

Thanks Sampson I'll check out those articles

Sampson I tried what you suggested but I still get the installer trying to setup at boot. Thanks anyways. Visceroid I'm not sure where to look for that in the reg. Thanks

I had an istall of a plug in go wrong when I was installing a component from the office 2000 suite. The system hung up and then rebooted. I think it was a short power out that caused it. I reinstalled the needed component but noticed that when the system was coming back up there was a " installing Microsof Office setup" screen with an error message. I cancelled the install and went about my stuff. Now everytime I start up the system the install tries to go therough it's setup routine and ends up giving me the same error. How do I get rid of that startup program? Thanks in advance

Clutch Thank you for your response. I followed the link you provided and created the 4 required boot and startup disks as directed at the site. I did this on another system as It was not possible on the system in question. When the disks were complete I proceeded to start the other system up using the first disk and second and so on. Everything was coming up fine. The next step was not as obvious though as I could see not files in the 4 disks created that allowed for a format or Fdisk as I’ve been used to in regular boot disk operations. During the setup process there was an area that allowed me to setup win2k on the existing 2 partitions , delet the partitions or exit setup . I chose to delete both partitions. With that having been done I found myself in a bit of a bind as I could not format the new partition. After all else had failed I decided to shut down and boot with my win98 boot disk , which had fdisk and format commands on it. All drivers loaded and I proceeded to format the new single partition. Upon completion of the format I discovered I could not insert the win2k disk and ask to perform the “setup “ as the message came up “ this program cannot run in DOS” so I went through the process of rebooting and inserting each of the setup disks again. At this point I was given the option to setup win2k again and agreed to set this up on my single formatted partition. All went well and when the setup program said that there was no previous version to use for the upgrade it simply asked to remove the win2k cd and insert my win98 cd. I did this , it was recognized , and requested that I reinsert my win2k cd. All is well and the system is up again ( just going through the update process) but I again wanted to thank you and wanted to document my procedure so that if any other person was going through the same thing there would be an account of the procedure . I found it interesting in this case that I was able to use an upgrade disc to install as the only way that I have found previously to install a clean version from a update disc was to direct the install to look on another cd drive for a previous version. L8tr

I apologise in advance if this tread is comewhere else in the forum but I could not find an answer. I have a neighbours IBM PII 350 that they got from work. It has win2k on it on a drive that is 3.2GB but partitioned into 2 , 1.5 GB drives. Right now the one drive is NTFS and the other fat. When they try to boot it gets to the windows desktop and a message saying explorer.exe has generated errors and must be shut down . At this point it keeps looping in the start sequence. There is nothing on either drive that they care to keep so I would like to fdisk and make it one partition.Reformat and reinstall OS. There is no way in the bios for changing boot sequences so that I can make it boot from the cd either. I can't figure out how to create a boot disk as the one I have is for fat 32 and if I try to fdisk it only recognises the fat partition. Any help would be great and I thank everyone in advance. L8tr

I emailed PC-cillon about the error I was getting and they sent me a reply saying that it is a prob that sometimes happens. They sent me a fix as the TSC.exe file was corrupt. unzipped, applied and everythings good again. Love flowers in the meadow lalalalala. Anyways everything is up and now if I could just get IE6 working properly life would be good. But that would be too much to ask for. L8tr:D

I tried to pu the battery back in after I had backed up all my files ( u know save games and what ) and sure enough the damn system went down again . I hate you for pushing me into this ..........lol. No problem though insanity i shut down and put my new battery back in and everything came back up and seems normal for 5 hours now. As a note I did not get any further than befor although this time I did have to go to the bios and set auto detect in the hd as the first boot did not go as straight forwrd as I suspected. In addition now when I rebbot I have a tsc.exe cant find local drive\ blada blada blad but that appears to be just something to do with pc-cillon . Anyways I do hate you now ( just kidding ) but I'm sure it's something simple with that error. L8tr

No I nerver tried to boot it without the battery I didn't even know that it could be done. everything is running well now and I really don't want to mess with anything. If it aint broke don't fix it. L8tr

Yeah I still have the battery and have tested it on a multi tester with voltage but as soon as I put a load on it there is nothing ........so yeah it's going to battery heaven. lol l8tr

lafa;k aj jwah j;k ;ihji j;rowja oir;o ;oaj h;oj ; ok just getting my witts back after reading your explanation ........................hsjdfksf..........sorry momentary laps due to grey matter overload . Thanks for your reply and as soon as the tyoneon 3's kick in I'll try to digest that. L8tr