sorry about the very broad question. but what are some things that could cause a web server to almost be 10times slower. web pages that were taking ~3,000ms are up to ~30,000. same with others that were at ~200ms are at ~2,000. is seems to be the query/db access time. it's affecting both Access and SQL backed web pages. Access itself seems to be running fine. but SQL Manager seems to be running real slow. takes over 2 mins to just display a list of the tables when a db is chosen. and then almost 4 mins to display the design table. I have reviewed the logs, the only listing, but is not consistent is that the administrator account fails on accessing \winlogon Object type: desktop. EventID: 560 looks to be trying the access \winlogon once a sec. but this is not going on all the time. This will happen for about 3 mins then stop. the changes to the server I can think of, MS office and SQL 7 have both been reloaded. This is not an active server, once this problem gets fixed, it will be, so work load is not a factor. It is a WINNT 4.0, 1 GB RAM, dual 800mhz CPUs. using CF 5. I have tried to turn the different services off,(CF, WEB, SQL), but this does not affect the problem. I am at a loss. any suggestions will be appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists