Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI wrote: >Any hints on what is using these DLLs (CORE80.DLL, for example). > > > Stephen, the first thing should be to stop all unncessary services. Then, there are few utilities you can use to find out: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/handle.shtml http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/listdlls.shtml http://www.bindview.com/Support/RAZOR/Utilities/Windows/strace_readme.cfm And last but not least, you can download a good replacement for Windows client from http://fedora.redhat.com. The price is hard to beat and it works better then any widoze..... -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l