If you think you have index related issues, experience strange behavior, are challenged by problems that don't make sense, unable to resync on index errors, Slow Printing on reports, etc...
It may not be Alpha related.
You are possibly experiencing "Windows Profile Corruption".
In the past we've ran into strange issues that could not be resolved. Once the users profile was renamed to HSmith_old and had them login again to which a new profile is created from the Default User Profile template, the problems vanished.
The users are forever grateful and you get to keep your hair! What's left anyway...
Ed
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Dirty Instructions for renaming Admin Profile:
Check space on C partition
Create a 2nd Administrator called Admin2
Reboot the pc
Do not login
Go to another pc and Map a network drive to c$
Rename Profiles directroy to Profiles_old
Create a new directory called Profiles
Go to Profiles_old directory and delete all programs within Start\programs for the default user
Copy the Default User and All Users profiles from Profiles_old dir to the Profiles dir (Do not copy the Admininstrators)
Login as Administrator
Logoff
Log in as admin2
Copy the programs and desktop shortcuts from the Old Administrator into the new (do not copy entire profile)
logoff
Logon as administrator
It may not be Alpha related.
You are possibly experiencing "Windows Profile Corruption".
In the past we've ran into strange issues that could not be resolved. Once the users profile was renamed to HSmith_old and had them login again to which a new profile is created from the Default User Profile template, the problems vanished.
The users are forever grateful and you get to keep your hair! What's left anyway...
Ed
----------------------------------------------------------
Dirty Instructions for renaming Admin Profile:
Check space on C partition
Create a 2nd Administrator called Admin2
Reboot the pc
Do not login
Go to another pc and Map a network drive to c$
Rename Profiles directroy to Profiles_old
Create a new directory called Profiles
Go to Profiles_old directory and delete all programs within Start\programs for the default user
Copy the Default User and All Users profiles from Profiles_old dir to the Profiles dir (Do not copy the Admininstrators)
Login as Administrator
Logoff
Log in as admin2
Copy the programs and desktop shortcuts from the Old Administrator into the new (do not copy entire profile)
logoff
Logon as administrator