Martin Dew wrote:

> I would be inclined to check system restore settings etc. similar
> problems known with windows xp I believe whereas the first time you
> attach to a db is restore is turned on in the o/s it tries to backup the
> db.

There is no system restore in Windows 2003.

There is something called VSS, and as I wrote, I have turned it off, and
FB works faster, but connecting is slow.

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Milan Babuskov
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