Ektalog

I am in a hurry -- my wife waiting by the car -- right now. Therefore, I have not checked you posting in detail. I'll stop by tonight when I return to see if there is something else I can help with. Suddenly, this comes to mind as a long. but possible, shot. If using ODBC, data source-DSN should be in system, not user...darn I should have checked more of your posting. Good luck, I'll come back later.

Trohbock, list your setup, mainly hardware, and perhaps we can do more. In the meantime, off the top of my head: - if an older mobo (Via MVP3 chipset?) you would need more mobo-based cache memory (L2, 2meg, I believe) to be able to work with 512meg of system memory. Otherwise, symtoms are exactly what you describe. - Check the memory in another machine. - If you mean 512meg in one module, even some recent mobos balk at it. - Along the same lines, some of the best-priced memory out there may be compatible only with several Athlon mobos but not with Pentium/Celery ones.

This posting is just to help others who might encounter this issue with Windows XP. SYMPTOM: You disconnect WinXP from the Internet or otherwise loose the connection.* When you reactivate the connection, it is initially reported as successful by the connectoid. However, it is not so. No response is obtained from the Internet by client applications. The only option seems to be a full reboot. POTENTIAL Solution: If you have activated "Date and Time" synchronization in [start> Control Panel> Date and Time> Internet Time] "Automatically Synchronize with an Internet Time server" - uncheck the box - restart WinXP - Cross fingers that the problem is gone...you have been frustrated by this problem for a while; I was. BACKGROUND: Upon disconnection after a certain period of time, it seems that the D&T sync. option causes a persistent connection layer to remain active. This blocks further attempts to connect. Before applying solution above, you may be able to verify that this is your case if the connection you just lost/logged-off still appears as active in the Task Manager [Networking tab]. Ektalog *In my case problem was with broadband PPPOE - RASPPPOE, but heard stories of Cable and regular modems. I tested solution with modem connection also.

Hmmm, see if you can tell us what the error message says and also mention some details about your computer setup. We'll see what we can do to help. Office2k is running fine in my WinXP RC1 installation, which was upgraded from Win98. A friend of mine did a clean install of RC1, then added Office2k and things went smoothly...so there's hope. Ektalog

The real issue is that every time I start WinXP prof, I find that my icons are slow to display the first time I access the programs list in Start Menu. For all intents and purposes, it is like the icons-caching function resets everytime I reboot. To cure the problem temporarily, I just scan all of my StartMenu/Programs items so that they get cached, a pain in the butt. I do have a large number of applications installed. In Win98 I have to set "max cached icons" to 8192 in the registry to have them all cached and run fast from the get go. It works, and my shelliconcache file shows it, too. If gets corrupted, it rebuilds just fine when I take appropriate action. In my WinXP, shelliconcache does nothing...nada, zilch. And NONE of the fixes I have come across -- including those for Win2k -- has helped. Initially, it sat there just as it came from the original Win98 installation (over which I installed WinXP RC1 in a twin drive and swap bay). Then, I erased it to see if it reset. It simply died quietly, never came back. Earlier today, by accident, I came across a file called "IconCache.db" in the C:\Documents and Settings\MeTheAdmin\Local Settings\Application Data directory. To spare you the longer story... ;(this SEEMS to be doing what shelliconcache did in the past. In other words, it may be caching icons. But the effect doesn't show when I reboot... Here is the big puzzle: there is no mention of this "IconCache.db" anywhere on the Internet. No newsgroups mention it, no websites mention it (nowhere in the MS knowledgebases either). NOTHING. I put all my search bots to the task...NOT ONE return! - Am I the only one whose WinXP icons lose caching on reboot or relogin? Or just too dumb to find the solution, as I suspect... - Am I the only one with this "IconCache.db" file, or am I "reading ghosts"?