ElizaDoolittle84

Thanks. What I have done in recent months is disable DCOM, and COM+, rapid user switching, remote desktop and a variety of things that the log messages lead me to believe I am thwarting the "Evil System." Of course, that's a little like cutting off pieces of your flesh (not as painful) to prevent evil spirits. If you think it works, that's half the battle. I would love to hear what others have to say about this. Cheers, Eliza

I have nuked and burned several hard drives, gone through more than a few new hard drives, and actually gone through three computers trying to solve a persisitent computer problem that is referenced a bit in the post I just made about RSoP Planning Mode Provider, et al. One thing I see in combing through logs of one kind and another is that there appears to be a connection to some external server (not Microsoft's) using WBEM. Not I am not in any way knowledgeable about WBEM, but I just want to be able to identify a setting that prevents my machine from being able to not be part of someone else's WBEM system. Thanks for allowing me to display my ignorance here.