If you've grown tired of seeing messages in the system event log due to client-side mapping of printers with the Oracle server's print spooler service disabled, every time someone connects to the server via terminal services client/remote desktop, here is the fix: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;268065 this pales in comparison to the archiver reporting twice per archived redo log in the application event log, but its still less clutter. btw - setting the parameter statistics_level=basic worked great on getting rid of mmon .trc files in bdump. thanks, Niall. Paul -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l