02-15-2008, 02:58 AM
This is a BRAND new laptop from Dell. The only applications installed were MS Office components. I think that I finally got it to work. I found in the event log that the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service was failing and would not start. I had to re-register it then things started to work, but let me tell you, the error was not at all clear. I had to Google a 14 digit number and read through 4 pages of forum postings until I found the process to jump start things. I'm not exactly a novice at this. I'm maintaining 8 W2k3 server, 2 Exchange Servers, 160 Users, and 130 computers. I've probably installed Windows 200 times. But this was a new one. SP3 for XP should be due real soon. Everytime that they get up to about 100 updates after the last service pack they release another one.