[mystvearn]

Originally Posted by juppy The RPC is supposed to be greyed out.....they don't want it to be changed, because so many things depend on it. You should be able to see it set to Automatic even though it's greyed out. If it's set to Auto, it's fine. As for your problem, did you check what was mentioned at the bottom of the page in glc's link? I mean the part about checking in your System32 directory to see if the file dmserver.dll is named that OR if it got renamed to dmserverxxx.dl. If yours has the 3 X's on the end of it, you might try renaming it back to it's original name and see if that helps. If that's not it.....did you check in Event Viewer when it gives you that error message to see if EV shows exactly which service didn't kick in?

That is odd. I could not find and dmserver.dll or dmserverxxx.dll. What I can find is dmserversl.dll. I did try to do a search, but I could not find the files you mentioned either. Maybe i change that to dmserver.dll?

There are no error messages. The PnP devices are working, I can see the icon at the taskbar. I can "safely remove devices" as well. Only the drive letter is not registering. I tried it on another pc, and I could assess both drivers with the device manager tool.