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@enuffsaid: Well, part of my job are certain sysadmin tasks. We are a small firm so there is no specific sysadmin. I think this fix I found is really the easiest way out. Ridiculous that M$ actually suggests RENAMING the server to its old name! As if renaming a domain controller was so easy With Win2003 i think you actually *can* but it's really not recommandable

@ enuffsaid: blaming someone is easy but fixing the problem? it's all human errors, man invented computers, man wrote software for them I have however found an acceptable solution now. Seems like Word is satisfied when it just finds the old server so I created an alias record that matches the old server's name for the new server. The template doesn't have to be there but as long as it can find the server it will no longer wait and just open the doc!

@ enuffsaid : to be precise, nobody deleted the templates. we have simply switched to a new server (win2k3) and previously, they were stored on a netware server. the path has not changed BUT the UNC path has, of course. Now, unfortunately, Word has stored the UNC path of the template and hence is unable to find them. If it would search the network for say 30 seconds that would be ACCEPTABLE but up to 10 minutes is unfeasible..

Hi Phreaks, I hope you are really on the right windowsupdate page? v5 is for betas only... if you are not part of the beta program and don't have any beta version of windows I think it is normal that you get the thank you page...

@ enuffsaid : i know how to fix the problem but it takes way too long to wait for all them doc files to open. shortening the delay would be really great. @ tim: would be very nice if u could give me the file - maybe email it if u can't host it anywhere? thanx alot @ kenkueh : I just did a search with google and stumbled upon it by accident despite it not helping much i would like to try it and hey it's got a new shell32.dll maybe that will take care of XP explorer crashing so often??

Does anyone have this file? Windowsxp-kb823372-x86-enu.exe I don't seem to be able to get it from Microsoft. They say you are supposed to pay for it or something? This is rather odd as it is just a hotfix for XP that includes newer versions of shell32.dll and some others. More information can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823372 Any help is appreciated! thx