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nvsvc32.exe is the Nvidia driver helper service, and I think this is your culprit - and here's why: - services.exe will be listed any time a service is accessed (nvsvc32.exe is a service) - svchost.exe will be accessed any time the nvsvc32.exe is accessed - not sure why, but I've found a few posts on the net stating that the nvsvc32.exe binary uses something in a shared svchost (probably RPC or COM) - lsass.exe is invoked when a read or write to a user's registry is done by a service (nvsvc32.exe is a service) Try setting the Nvidia Display Driver Service to manual or disabled and stop the service (from services.msc), and see if the problem goes away (it seems likely that it will)

Have you tried uninstalling IE7 and AIM (and any other software installed since the problem), then doing a system restore to back to when it worked?

Which exact policy did you modify, which setting inside that policy did you change, and what did you set that policy to? That'll help a bit.

You might want to modify the "owner" acl on the files and folders, as that could affect it (perhaps make the owners the actual group the users are a member of - I've seen restores make everything owned by "administrators", which can have an effect on renames and deletes).

The driver on the Windows CD or with SP releases still come from the vendor, just FYI - Microsoft doesn't make drivers except for branded input devices and for their network cards (which I don't think are being made anymore). So the driver on the disc for the AMD processor came from AMD, not Microsoft. Again, just an FYI (if the updated driver from AMD works better, let us know if it stays stable so others will know what to do when they see your post later).

That makes no sense - why would you want to run sysprep at the end of setup? I think we're missing something here, like perhaps you have your CD set to install a bunch of apps, make some changes, and you want to image it at the end (and sysprep it) or something?

On the x86 front, only Server 2003 and 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter editions can "see" and use memory above 4GB - no x86 versions of XP or Vista will use any RAM above 4GB if you add /PAE to boot.ini (although it will let you create a pagefile larger than 4GB). If you want to run XP or Vista and use 8GB or more of RAM, you'll need to run XP or Vista x64.

You can install MUI on English-language versions of XP only - if you have a localized version, it's a no-go.

I believe so, yes - if the reg keys exist, then the answer is yes.

If you got a network trace from a client machine where the browsing was slow, it'd be interesting to see the communcations (or lack thereof) between it and the file server.

Page down? Network Access Message: The page cannot be displayed Explanation: The request timed out before the page could be retrieved. 14:26 ET 12/17/2007

Do you have Broadcom (or rebranded Broadcom) network cards in that server? If so, run the command "netsh int ip set chimney DISABLED", then install the following hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936594 Again, without a network trace I'm guessing, but it's worth a shot (and if you've got broadcom NICs on 2K3 SP2, you should do this anyway!).

The part regarding having DIMMs installed for a specific socket leads me to believe that yes, it could very well be the mobo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Setup http://bonemanblog.blogspot.com/2004/12/ac...-and-their.html

If you've disabled simple file sharing, you should have a security tab when looking at the properties of a shared printer.

If you contact the Microsoft clearinghouse, you should be able to get your activation number reduced to activate. Support will not be able to do this for you.

An XP image is an XP image - unlike a Vista WIM, you can't edit it the same way. Again, just as with your other post about this issue, if you need to modify the image regularly after creation, an "image" is definitely not the way to go long-term.

That hex code literally means "Fatal error during installation" according to the SDK. If you try it manually while running process monitor, do you get the same error (and if so, what does the process monitor log state happened)?

Is this XP Home?

Looking at that more closely this time around, notice that this is a "Query Security" request - I'm wondering why that would fail, but that's definitely not a request to open the directory, but get security information about it. What are the security perms to that folder, by chance?

No, there's really not - if you need the script to get to everyone, it really has to be incorporated into a GPO that applies to the users in AD. You'll have to rely on your domain admins for this.

So you have a server that you do have admin rights to, on a domain you don't. Assuming this isn't a domain controller, you should have access to the local group policy settings (gpedit.msc) that may work for you for this server (local and domain policies are merged at system start or user logon, depending on computer or user configuration). If your AD admins haven't locked it down too far, a local policy for this server might work.

Windows doesn't support multiple gateways in this manner - you'd need your ISP to provide this (a hardware solution) in front of the Windows box.

Run perfmon and monitor the Private Bytes, Virtual Bytes, and Working Set counters for all objects under the "Process" object. This will tell you how much virtual address space is in use (in multiple ways) by each process on the box, and you'll be able to see if any one process is running away with VA (and thus, causing virtual memory usage to go up). What is your pagefile size set to, btw?

Yeah, but if it fails, what then? It doesn't tell you where it failed (whereas the script and .reg files I gave are safer, and visible as to what is happening) .