as for the popups wouldn't killing the alerter service take care of this? I usually do that after a reformat among other services, but have been too busy since reformatting last week

Havn't killed the Xp firewall yet either but no connection probs. and I'm also behind a hardware firewall. I don't have Poser or really anything major back on this comp yet, but so far no probs with SP2 whatever that's worth.

Message edited on: 11/19/2004 08:24