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If you make the following registry changes and reboot, does networking for SP2 start working again? Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Value: EnableRSS Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0 Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Value: EnableTCPA Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0 Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Value: DisableTaskOffload Type: REG_DWORD Data: 1

MPS Reports gather logs and empirical data about the system, and as such I'd start with reading from the DirSvc MPS report on the event logs and such, but for your scenario replmon is probably a better tool to be troubleshooting with.

First things first - make absolutely sure your antivirus product does not touch the CSC folder. I've seen Sophos, McAfee, and Symantec A/V products all cause this problem by scanning files in this folder. I'm sure others can do this, but those are the A/V products I've actually seen do it.

You might want to give "CREATOR OWNER" modify permissions on that location, so that the user who actually creates the folder and is tagged as the owner can modify it (like rename).

Download and run ShellExView, and disable all non-Microsoft items listed. Log off to kill explorer.exe, and then log back on to reload explorer without the shell extensions. That might be enough to fix it.

What error occurred on the XP clients? If it worked before but doesn't now, it sounds like someone perhaps modified the point-and-print policies in group policy...

Antivirus software, backup software, antispyware software, and firewall applications all install things into the Windows kernel called "filter drivers", and these capture all I/O on disk (or on the network interface, or both) and parse them (scanning for viruses, checking packets, allowing the backup software to back up open files, etc). Since *every single I/O request on the system* goes through every filter driver installed, this can severely slow your system down if one (or more) is misbehaving. Unfortunately, you cannot simply disable the application, as the kernel driver stays loaded - you need to uninstall these types of applications to remove the kernel filter driver (and reboot) for it to be gone. If you're complaining of a slow system and your disk is fairly well defragmented and you haven't made any changes you're aware of other than patching, then you could have a faulty hard disk, or a much more likely scenario is that you have a filter driver (or two, or three....) causing issues that removing the software would address.

If you're running IE7, you should set the "Turn on menu bar by default" policy to DISABLED under User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer. I have tested this, and it disables the File | Edit | View.... menu properly. The registry key and value for this setting is: Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main Value: AlwaysShowMenus Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0 | 1 - 0 disables the menus completely, 1 enables them

Try following Taurarian's post from 13-2-2005, 12:31AM from this post: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-522214.php\ Running the iereg.bat will re-register pretty much all shell components, and may fix your issue.

If you change the folder options so you can view hidden and system files (so no files are hidden), is there a .css, .html, or desktop.ini file hidden in the root?

Can you boot in safe mode and logon?

Have you tried uninstalling any antivirus, antispyware, backup, and/or firewall software installed on the machine to see if that helps at all?

Is this remote machine a terminal server, or a workstation you are RDP'ing into?

No, OEM versions of Windows that ship with OEM PCs (like Asus PCs) are tied to the machine they are shipped, with, and must legally only be installed on the machine that the licensed copy of Windows was purchased for. If you want to install Vista on another machine, you will (legally) need another copy of Vista.

I saw that, and that was the reason for my previous post - it's a crock and there's not a real-world scenario that I can even think of where this will hold true.

If you don't mind learning a bit of Kix (assuming you don't know it already), you can do it pretty easily like this.

Also, can you attach the log file itself rather than posting it's contents? Those long posts make this thread a pain to read, honestly.

Exactly - this is not a very good "real-world" paper, and it also seems they're more interested in defragmentation performance (speed, time to defrag) rather than actual performance of opening/saving files on disk (and even then, it appears they tested entirely with text files........... ). If you want to increase disk performance, any disk defragmenter that works with the native APIs (like perfectdisk, diskeeper, etc) is a good second choice after creating and formatting the partition correctly for the device(s) underneath it, as well as the intended usage patters of the disk(s) before actually attempting use. Keeping a disk defragmented is important, but making sure it was created correctly is just as important (maybe more so?).

Not sure, but it could be one of the additional ones that ship with the Vista SP1 beta? Some new ones shipped, but I can't recognize the stock ones as I haven't used the stock photos in a long time, sorry.

No, not possible without something 3rd party that tracks what the .reg file adds, subtracts, or changes. A .reg file is just a text file that regedit.exe or reg.exe parses and then uses to modify the registry.

Hmm - that's a very uncommon return value for the vssadmin tool, especially on the Microsoft VSS provider GUID (the win32 failure code is E_UNEXPECTED, catasrophic failure). I'd say to uninstall any antivirus/antispyware/backup applications on the machine, including any volume mounting utilities (like daemon tools, for example), and see if the problem continues after a reboot.

No, it doesn't - meaning you are probably right, you have an x64 copy of the .iso.

Does the CPU in your machine support hardware-assisted virtualization, and if so, is it enabled?

In case it breaks an application on your box? That's the main reason I can think of, but I'm sure there are others...

Not really, honestly - that's why I wanted you to try safe mode (Kapersky wouldn't have been loaded, as would a few other things). Any application that uses a kernel filter driver for I/O, like most antivirus applications, have the potential to do any number of bad things to I/O requests.