I am running a tax management software that uses SQL Server 2005 for its databases. I am erratically getting this error when I try to run the program: OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from Microsoft SQL Native Client TCP Provider: Timeout Error [258]. I am also seeing this error erratically as well: OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from Microsoft SQL Native Client: Shared Memory Provider: Timeout error [258]. When I click the ignore button for either of these errors, I see this error: From ABODB Recordset: The connection cannot be used to perform this operation. It is either closed or invalid in this context. After clicking the ignore button again, the error goes away and the tax program crashes. After all this, when I try to load the program, it loads fine. I do not, however, get these errors everytime I try to load the program. Some days I never see an error, other days, I get the error whenever I leave the computer for longer than an hour. I thought that maybe it was because I was not giving enough time for SQL server to start before running the program, but again, if I leave the computer for too long, the error may or may not happen. The only other thing I can think of is that it is Norton Anti-Virus conflicting with SQL Browser at startup when Norton checks for updates. Is this a possibility, or am I way off base here? Thanks.