Slow Dos prompt and no active directory property pages

[Paul Berauchamp]

I have recently rebuild a windows 2000 server from
scratch. Originally it had two mirrored drives and we
needed to upgrade to RAID5. Having upgraded the hardware
I couldn't restore the backup completely because the
hardware was so different. So, I recreated the AD by
entering all of the user names again and then restored
the data from tape. However, before the rebuild I noticed
the server had two problems

1. Whenever you opened a DOS prompt and typed a command
(e.g. ping) you never saw what you had typed until you
pressed enter - then it would display it and perform the
command.

2. After the server had been running for a while - if you
brought up the "active directory users and computers" MMC
snap in and double clicked a uses account, no property
page would be displayed, but when you came to close the
snap in it would say "close all property pages before
exiting". After a while the machine just grinds to a halt
and fails to perform logon etc. After a reboot it's ok
for a while but then goes back to the problem.

I expected both of these problems to have been resolved
following a complete rebuild. However, they are both back
again. I've run the stinger from Macafee but it detects
nothing.

Any other suggestions - has anyone seen this before.

 

[Jon S.]

Hiya,
Have a look here:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windows2000_tips.htm#fast_dos_print
That should help

Jon

 

[Guest]

Thaks jon,

unfortunately none of these are the problem I'm getting.
I've installed SP4 now and it seems to have speeded up a
little.

Paul