Re: Really no answer?

From: drunkardswalk@earthlink.net
Date: 06/29/02 

From: drunkardswalk@earthlink.net
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:50:16 -0600

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:05:44 -0700, "VM" <vm@not.a.valid.address>
wrote:

>Sometimes helps if you clear the security log. If that works, also change
>its setting to "overwrite events as necessary".
>HTH

<Mucho snipped>

Thanks for the heads up. I do clear my logs regularly, and have them
set to around 10 MBytes in overwrite mode. So that's likely not the
problem. Right now the system as a whole is getting increasingly
flakey, possibly related to the fact that WMI thinks it needs to
restore some DLL's, but refuses to recognize the CD drive containing
the installation CD. Don't know what's behind that, but I seem to
recall seeing a thread on it somewhere.

Reid

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