You can move TCP/IP up to make it the first on the list.

>Hi Sergy,
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>The named pipes is the first one and I cannot highlight or remove it. Tcp/IP is second and I can highlight that and remove.
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>How do I get rid or move the named pipes?
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>Thanks again
>Jim
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>>>I keep trying to regester a server in the enterprise manager sql 7.0 and It keeps timing out. I can connect to the query analyzer using the same server but the connection is slow. how do I change the timeout length of time in the enterprise manager?
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>>Make sure that workstation set up to use TCP/IP protocol not Named Pipes which is quite slow. To do that, run SQL Server Network Utility on WS and check that TCP/IP is enabled and is the first protocol in the list.