Hi,
Sounds like some sort of rights issue. Log in with administrative rights and see what happens, also disable virus scanning, can kill some processes if not disabled.

If that doesn't work you may have problems with AD.

>Hi Sergey,
>Thanks a lot..
>I tried this out but when I run the program DisableDropShadows.exe
>I get the message:
>"Unabled to disable drop shadows. Cannot continue."
>
>Any ideas what's wrong?
>
>BR
>Tim
>
>>Check http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839024&Product=fox.
>>
>>>I am trying to find a solution to the problem that at one customer site we
>>>get a C000005 error immediately when starting our application.
>>>
>>>The customer is using windows 2000 and the problem can be solved by deleting the users profile. However, for this customer this is not an option.
>>>
>>>I was reading Thread ID: 883196
>>>But unfortunately I cant read the end of it because the system cuts it off after 50 messages :(
>>>
>>>Does anyone know if microsoft posted a knowledge base or other fix for this problem (if they did I cant find it..)
>>>