"mp" wrote in message
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Lately I've been getting a little dialog pop up by the task tray saying,
"windows system error - duplicate name on network"
there is no network, this is my laptop, not connected to any lan
any ideas what may be causing that?

Probably a virus or other malware.

i had had an autoexec bat with a subst line but . . .

WindowsXP does not require AUTOEXEC.BAT (and cannot
use most of the DOS functions loaded by this DOS file.)

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)