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Some more pointers: 1) My machine (on which it does not work) is windows2000 professional edition. The other one where it worked is a server. 2) My program is compiled with VC6 and it's a console application.

:rose:Thank You very much for the reply.

There's a couple of options available. One is to reboot the machine and press F8 when WIndows starts loading. This will display a menu of startup options, including Last Known Good configuration. Selecting this will boot the OS in the configuration it had when it last started normally. If it then discovers a "new" modem and offers to install it, refuse it and let it boot normally. Then use Device Manager to remove the modem completely, power down and physically extract the modem. The next startup should be mormal, unless you've booted several times since the problem began and all the backup configurations are bad. Another choice is to boot from the original CD and allow the Install process to begin. You can then select the Repair option to attempt to restore the original configuration as it was first installed. Before you attempt this, though, remove the modem physically from the machine and make sure the BIOS is set to boot from the CD first. The CD itself is bootable, but the BIOS has to look there first, before trying the HDD. This option will also require you to reinstall any hotfixes, patches, or service packs you've installed. Good luck:-) This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order

What kind of "interruptions" do you want to manage? Power interruptions? IRQ interruptions? BSOD interruptions? User interruptions? Or some other type(s) of interruptions? Aalst

The Spooler service in Win2K is flaky, but I doubt that this is Microsoft's fault entirely. I've seen a variety of behaviors on different machines, and the difference seems to be in the printer model. My Lexmark, for instance, has to complete a job; cancelling a print job leaves a stub file in the spooler folder that will block any later attempts to print until the machine is restarted. An HP I've used allows jobs to be cancelled okay, but about 40% of the time it fails to print at all on the first try. I'd bet the problem you're having is due to the driver, not Windows - check for a newer version on the web. Alternatively, if you have more than one printer assigned to the print device, you can set different priorities to make Windows pay closer attention to one over the other. This won't help overall performance, though. This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order

I suppose I could copy the CD into a folder on my HD and email it to you, but I wonder how long that would take? And whether it would be legal? This is a US-only distribution, but last time I checked, Sweden was friendly:-) Probably best not to go there... This Signature is Temporarily Out of Order

I've doen this with Partition Magic 7.0 twice with no difficulties. But I'd recommend doing a full defrag first and backup if you can. Regards, Brian Dela :-)

Venet wrote: That possibility is not excluded! LOL.. I'll bet it's not ;-) Regards, Brian Dela :-)

have you tried ntbackup backup [systemstate] "other switches" ? Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

Make sure you're using the LDAP provider, not the WinNT one. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/adsi/iadsuser.asp?frame=true[^] for the list of properties supported.

Corto Maltese wrote: I just wanted to mount a remote share to my local directory path Impossible with current OS. You'd have to create your own Reparse Point kernel-mode driver and... Well, it's messy. Have a look at the "Junction Points" article here at CP to get a feeling of how messy it is just to mount local volumes on a directory. Windows was never intended for such "advanced" tasks. :-<

Rainer Mangold wrote: WIN+F, or +R, or +L is still working wtf is +L ? Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

Best to ask in VC++ forum. Regards, Venet. Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos.

That's the one! Thanks :-D I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe Jeremy Davis http://www.astad.org http://www.jvf.co.uk

I think that will do it for you then. Read the documentation and see what you can make of it. I don't understand it particularly, having not spent much time on it, but I think that it's probably exactly what you need for SQLServer Mail. If I understand what I read while skimming through it,you can set it up to handle mail from multiple domains, yei they make the distinction that a mail domain is different from a host domain - I don't quite get that, but maybe it will make sense to you. Good luck!:-) A New Adjective Is Born!