Re: Slow Dos prompt and no active directory property pages

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/06/04


Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:14:36 -0700

Thaks jon,

unfortunately none of these are the problem I'm getting.
I've installed SP4 now and it seems to have speeded up a
little.

Paul
>-----Original Message-----
>Hiya,
>Have a look here:
>http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windows2000_tips.htm#fast_d
os_print
>That should help
>
>Jon
>
>"Paul Berauchamp" <paul_beauchamp799@hotmail.com> wrote
in message
>news:69cd01c493f9$dcdc4760$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have recently rebuild a windows 2000 server from
>> scratch. Originally it had two mirrored drives and we
>> needed to upgrade to RAID5. Having upgraded the
hardware
>> I couldn't restore the backup completely because the
>> hardware was so different. So, I recreated the AD by
>> entering all of the user names again and then restored
>> the data from tape. However, before the rebuild I
noticed
>> the server had two problems
>>
>> 1. Whenever you opened a DOS prompt and typed a command
>> (e.g. ping) you never saw what you had typed until you
>> pressed enter - then it would display it and perform
the
>> command.
>>
>> 2. After the server had been running for a while - if
you
>> brought up the "active directory users and computers"
MMC
>> snap in and double clicked a uses account, no property
>> page would be displayed, but when you came to close the
>> snap in it would say "close all property pages before
>> exiting". After a while the machine just grinds to a
halt
>> and fails to perform logon etc. After a reboot it's ok
>> for a while but then goes back to the problem.
>>
>> I expected both of these problems to have been resolved
>> following a complete rebuild. However, they are both
back
>> again. I've run the stinger from Macafee but it detects
>> nothing.
>>
>> Any other suggestions - has anyone seen this before.
>
>
>.
>



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