Thanks for trying. This is the only W2k machine. The others are W98 or XP Pro. The XP has no such problem. I am not spending enough time on the problem to justify a reinstall at this time. This is my main machine. I would first try and find someone familiar with the problem. A www search has not found it yet but there has to be a reason. Due to the type of problem, I would really like to find out what is causing it as I suspect (as you do) that some software is locking full access to the folder.

>Check whether other machines have the same problem. If no - try to reinstall the affected machine (yes I know it is drastic step, but it can be a broken dll or service misconfiguration and the time you will loose identifying problem may overcome the time to reinstall everything)
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>>I have no zero administration. Norton Antivirus is installed. I have the same problem even when the antivirus is disabled...
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>>>I have tryed to reproduce it with no success. My OS is Win2k Pro Build 2195 SP3.