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NOktar, I have tried this with total success. Everything is now working fine. Very many thanks for your post.

Hi, I am trying to connect my company laptop to my company Exchange server, via my home LAN which has an ADSL connection. I have attached my laptop to the LAN and connected via the LAN/ADSL to my VPN connection. Through this I can successfully ping the Exchange server. However, when I try...

SUCCESS!!!! I uninstalled/reinstalled File & Printer Sharing - no change. I prepared a plan to flatten and rebuild the machine and backed everything up onto my second PC. As a final attempt, I re-read the thread and realised I hadn't done anything about IIS. I uninstalled and reinstalled IIS...

Hi, I deleted the key, as suggested, restarted but the problem persists.

First many thanks for a tremendous response. I am still sifting through the wealth of valuable information. To answer a few of the points: I have 1024 Mb RAM so lack of RAM shouldn't be the problem. Also subsequent attempts to open "Properties" take as long as the first. The disk is...

Ok, a further update. The problem is NOT with the context menu. This opens normally. The problem appears to reside within Windows Explorer or the file system. The "Properties" panel takes 30 seconds to open whether called from the Context menu or from the main File Menu. But this only...

A update: When the system hangs following establishing a dial-up connection, the state is not total; one application remains operational - usually MSN Messenger but can be Internet Explorer. Other applications do not respond but can be terminated and no new applications can be initiated. If...

Another left field post - and I can't see how this would apply to a laptop BUT, I had a similiar "New Hardware Detected" problem with a PC with an on-board sound card and a PCI sound card installed. The cause was that the on-board card had not been disabled in the BIOS. You could try checking...

Unchecking the 'Use simple file sharing (Recommended)' has restored my security tab - thanks bcastner for this tip. Less success with the long delay on right clicking folder properties. I discovered that this only applies to folders; files and shortcuts (eg My Documents) are OK. I downloaded...

Thanks for your very speedy post. I will follow this up this evening and let you know how it goes.

I have converted the file systems on my XP Pro PC from FAT32 to NTFS and have done the same on a Win 2K PC. When I try to open the file/folder properties box on the XP machine it now takes up to 20 seconds to open. It is virtually instant on the W2K PC. Also, on the XP PC, the properties box...

Hi, Can somebody help with this issue? Frequently, when I have successfully dialled up to my ISP, my system hangs. To clear this, I disconnect, wait around 3 minutes before the system recognises the disconnect status and then after a further 2 - 3 minutes, the system returns to normal...