Don't feel dumb, that piece took me a while to figure out. In Mgmt Studio, go to Tools --> Options. In the At Startup, select "Open a new...

Andras your solution worked. Thank you so much and I am sorry I doubted it at first.

Never mind I figured it out by using the Tools/Options settings.

I am trying to test your proposed solution (the first one using ALTER database) but I do not have Query Analyzer and when I try to connect to the database...

No it deals with SIZE, which is different than INTIAL SIZE.

That article deals with shrinking TEMPDB, which I have done as a temporary stopgap. As soon as I restart SQLServer TEMPDB will be recreated with the INITIAL SIZE which...