Switching to Firebird 1.5 I believe solves this problem. Also, name the
databases with an FDB extension. XP uses GDB extension for something else.

The isc4.gdb cannot be renamed in IB 6 so will have that problem.

""Ross Garbig"" <ross@...> wrote in message
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> I've tried all the following on a new XP Pro box (with RAID) running XP

Pro 2002/SP1.

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> - turn off system resotore on all drives
> - rename db.gdb to db.ib
> - gfix isc4.gdb to read_only
> - set isc4.gdb read only property to True
> - set cpu affinity for run32dll.exe to CPU0 but somewhere/somehow it

always resets to both CPU0 and CPU1 selected.

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> After all of the above, connect and even disconnect is slow (30+ seconds)
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> What else can I do? Convert to FireBird?
> Thanks for any help on this, and a tip of the hat to MS.
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