Ed,

Thanks for that.

I am going to look into it. It seems almost too good to be true.

Matt

Just for information i decided to go with a Dell XPS M1530 with the following spec:

Intel Dual Core 2 Duo T7250 @ 2.0ghz

2048gb ram (gonna up it to 4gb in...

Okay, cool.

I am glad it worked.

Matt

Nathan,

Check this fix on MSDN - it should solve your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810026

Kind Regards,

Matt

Ive got it working!

I restarted all the services, then used the Surface Area configurator to Add a new administrator and it worked?

Weird - i didnt really do anything!

Matt, im using...

Anirban Paul (2/26/2008)

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Remove Windows authorization and try to login. If it succeeds then go for Windows auth.

Like Microsoft tips check the basics, password is correct or not, password policy...

Kev,

Yes, i meant Evaluation Edition, sorry.

Ok, i never realised Enterprise Edition wasnt support on Vista. I'll look into it.

Thanks,

Matt.

Chris,

I would definately prefer a Macbook, but i didnt know you could run SQL Server on it?

How does parallels work - is it basically a virtual machine type program...

Thanks Major - I'll take a look at the Tecra.

Matt

Yer, i had thought of that Steve - cheers.

No-one got any laptop recommendations then?

M.

Thanks Toni.

I would also like to use Virtual Machines to play with replication, log shipping and clustering etc.

Matt

Ive not seen a free mini reporting suite, but i have used Apex SQL Reports in the past.

http://www.apexsql.com/sql_tools_report.asp

Its a really good reporting suite for the smaller business/low budget...

Is it possible for you to amend the VB6 program to strip out the $ and the , ??

Matt.