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The system is slow to boot. Once I get to the welcome screen, windows runs normally. Would that still help Hipster?

I finished all the windows updates and still booting very slowly. Could it be a hardware issue with the hardrive, maybe a back sector or something??

I believe I have at least 512 MB of ram. That's another thing, I tried to get into Safe Mode and it wouldn't let me. Last time I knew F8 got you in unless it has changed for XP.

I have already rebooted once or twice since then. I can't remember my hardware profile, but I know it is maybe a year old if that. I can double check the hardware profile.

Just formatted my machine and installed WinXp Pro. Was installing the Windows update and did SP2. Since the SP2 install, it takes a few mintues for my machine to boot up. It will just sit there for a little with a blank screen like nothing is happening. Then the white bar will appear at the...

Is there some type of software out there that will do a scan of all open ports?

Not that i know of. I am running out of ideas as well.

Yup, i tried with the port and without the port. Both got the same error message.

I am forwarding the IP to my LAN address. I was able to go to my friends computer and connect to my machine with no problem. I will double check the windows firewall, but i did go into it and under the exceptions tab make sure remote desktop was checked off. It makes me believe it is something...

Yes I do have a router, but I have gone into the Router and added my ip address and the port. The port is showing as open and I was able to connect from my friend's machine. The message I get is that the client could not connect to the remote computer.

I don't currently have 80 open, but I could. If you could post that info, I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Is there a way I could see what ports are open from my office so, instead of trying to guess a port. I'll give the other ports you mentioned a try.

OK, went home and changed the port. Followed the steps in the Microsoft article. Also checked to make sure the new port was listening, which it was. Went to try and connect and still no luck. Check PortQuery again on the new port and it still came up as filtered. Will try a different port...

Having trouble connecting to my machine at home. I have followed all the steps from this webpage. http://theillustratednetwork.mvps.org/RemoteDesktop/RemoteDesktopSetupandTroubleshooting.html Had a friend try to connect to my machine and did so with no problem. I tried to connect to my machine...