vasilis

i dont mind formating. the one that annoys me is that i have to install again all the updates,programs and such.

i dual boot w2k pro and xp. i intall all the shareware i want into xp. mainly i work with w2k and surf with xp. (sometimes w2k too. Just to install updates).

Thanks for the response guys. No offence blackwar, but we cannot "format" every time a problem occures. I must confess though that it crossed my mind. :spaced I want to exhaust all the possibilities first. Yes, sp2 is installed. By the way, when is the sp3 going to be released (beta or official) ? I tried different combinations of the services state. Finally it worked with WMI to manual and the WMI extension to automatic. I must test it extensively though. In XP, I never had that kind of problem. The above services are both set to automatic.

I have a problem. In W2k (SP2, SRP1) the WinMgmt.exe keeps crashing whenever i try to run anything. Somtimes is crashes after the login process. Although it crashes, the program that i have chosen, keeps running. But it is annoying because after a while it crashes again. (...and again. etc) I went to device manager, and observed that the IPSEC service has also crashed. By the way, the IPSEC service should be set to manual or automatic? (Since I am not in a w2k domain i think it sould be in manual) I tried with both settings but the WinMgmt.exe keeps crashing. Any suggestions?