>>The CONFIG.NT on this box is simpler:
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>>FILES=150
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>Well, I tried increasing Files, but it only seems to slow NT down, if anything, and does not remove errors. There actually isn't much DOS anyway, only bootup stuff.
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>Then we installed Outlook2000 on the NT machine this morning, and I'm actually getting NT system crashes now (explorer.exe). I thought NT wasn't supposed to crash :) We cannot even dream of moving to NT the way things are currently...
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>But I think I really need a new test machine, to see how much of these problems are unique to this machine, at this point.

Was this a clean NT install, from the ground up? Is the hardware on the HCL? Is networking configured right?

FWIW, I had my first honest to goodness BSOD lockup today on the LAN here at home on the NT Server box, probably caused by shifting roles in the domain and using Active Directory and trying to publish a virtual page from the IIS5 system on the NT's RAID array. I had to repair the NT system partition, and do a partial reinstall to change roles for the machine from PDC to a member server to use Active Directory. I'll live. I'll probably upgrade it to Win2K IAC.