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Network	bluto	10/15/03
Hi Scott..... I just got an old 233 (MHz) pc, loaded w/ Windows 2000 Pro from an acquaintance that used the computer as part of his company's network. I got the computer to give to a friend, but am having trouble setting it up to be used for a single user (no network). I want the computer to logon seamlessly without asking for passwords and all that jazz, but what it does now (after I've fiddled with it) is tell me in a "Windows Environment" dialogue box that the setting for the user could not be loaded and then another sentence under that that says: "DETAIL": 'There was not sufficient storage available to load the user's settings. Default settings will be used.' It had an ethernet card in it. I installed a hardware-based modem, and removed the ethernet card so they wouldn't compete for internet access. I was able to get it to see the internet once last night, but I kept getting the 'cannot find page' error. I looked thru IE settings and so forth, but I may have missed something. Does this sound familiar to you? How can I fix this so that one person can easily log on, and off without the hassle? Thanks ---- bluto :)
Clarification/Follow-up by bluto on 10/16/03 10:11 am: Hello Scott..... I checked the domain on this computer. It is not selected. Only the workgroup is selected. Do you have any other suggestions? b - Clarification/Follow-up by bluto on 10/16/03 12:05 pm: Hi Scott...... After rebooting the computer several times so I can get the text of the message that comes up....here it is: Windows Environment: "Windows cannot load user's profile but has logged you on with the default profile for the system. DETAIL: Not enough storage is available to process this command." This is the dialogue that comes up when the system is booting up. It has a 24 second counter that counts down. Clicking 'ok' on this allows the system to finish booting. I have no clue what the message means, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the pesky, left-over networking setup the computer had in its former life. I am able to log on with a dial-up connection, but Internet Explorer will not log on. The blue banner at the top of the IE page shows this: "res://c:winntsystem32shdclc.dll/dnsserver.htm" I have seen this many times on our machines at work when the server is down, which tells me that somewhere on this computer it is still pointing to a server, or networking nugget I suppose. I've looked all over but really am not good at this kind of thing, and am about out of ideas. Does this help you understand what is going on? Thanks ----- bluto Clarification/Follow-up by ScottGem on 10/16/03 12:41 pm: How much free space on the drive? I don't suppose you got the W2K disk with the PC so can reload it? Hope this helps, Scottu Clarification/Follow-up by bluto on 10/16/03 11:32 pm: Scott.... I don't recall the numbers, but it has something like 70 or 80 percent free space. I've defragged it, just to make it a little 'tighter' when I give it away. And you're right...I don't have the disc. It's a 10 gig HD, not much RAM (~48M) I think, but it's enough. b- Clarification/Follow-up by ScottGem on 10/17/03 12:19 am: Well first, 48M is very light for W2K. Frankly, I would load W98Se on it and redo it. Hope this helps, Scott u Clarification/Follow-up by bluto on 10/17/03 1:35 am: Thanks for the help.

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1. The first thing you need to do change it so its not looking ...	10/16/03	ScottGem

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