Oh. I totally missed the "XP Pro" part and concentrated on the mention of "TS". Sorry about that. With a XP Pro box and the Remote Desktop Client, everything SHOULD work as if you were logged in locally. Do you have any programs that offer their own "power saving settings"? I remember seeing software offering to "hibernate, after all downloads are complete" or similar mumbo-jumbo. That is pretty much all I can think of right now, sorry. Hope it helps. Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton

Bit of extra info: the odd thing is that we have 2 production servers running exactly the same code - one is used as a 'staging' server (i.e., sand-box pre-production site used for external client testing) and the other is the actual production site. Both are configured identically (one used to be the real production system before we migrated it to an alternate hosting environment). The odd thing is that the IE client which exhibits the problem on the staging server, doesn't exhibit that behaviour on the production server. So you have the same binaries and presentation (.asXx) files on both servers, and yet the same IE client behaves differently depending on which server you use. And yet my machine works perfectly when I run against either server. It's a head-scratcher, alright... ________________________ http://www.webreaper.net -- modified at 6:58 Thursday 4th May, 2006

Anyone? :) ________________________ http://www.webreaper.net

You can associate the version of the .NET Framework that IIS uses by running the aspnet_regiis utility with an -i paramater. It should be in your framework folder usually \\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\. hope this does this trick, sivilian

Glad you got it- I was about to email it to you myself. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

That's exactly what I'm doing, and it works perfectly - as long as I perform the dial myself. However, I also want to monitor the dialling even if it's performed by another app, or by the user manually starting a connection via dial-up networking. In the latter case, whilst I can get an HRASCONN handle by enumerating RAS connections, it only 'appears' after the RASC_Auth status occurs - meaning I can't time the actually dialling part of the connection unless I initiate it. Regarding the engaged error issue, I'm not sure - but it's something I have to handle/detect, so if I find a solution I'll post it back in this thread. :-D ________________________ http://www.webreaper.net

Well, one clean XP installation later, and it installed flawlessly. :-D :rolleyes: Thanks for your help, anyway! :) ________________________ http://www.webreaper.net