OK, I've declared it! The only relevance to PICs is that I *need*
these machines working to be able to program PICs and the network is
a tool to use my time sufficiently efficiently to do so!

  I used to use a DOS-based network to do this, but WIN95's support of
DOS-level drivers is (better than WIN3.1 but) too poor to allow this to
work reliably.  So I installed TCP/IP but Microsoft Networks can't
properly use this as a substrate, so I had to install NETBEUI as well.

  I now have two machines (and soon more) that won't auto-boot (which I
need to run my packet radio, my FAX etc...) because of these two
parasitic screens which pop up asking for a password (even though I've
never given one) and then glibly informing me it can't find a DNS to
look up the non-existent password.

  Does this strike a chord with you?  More so, have you successfully
fixed it?  Please tell?  I saw a recent comment *somewhere* about a WIN
process launcher which zaps nasty question pop-ups but where would you
insert it anyway?

  Some might say RTFM but ... this is Microslop!  I thus pray to excuse
such a "newbie of newbies" enquiry.  I'll try not to do it again...

  In anticipation...
        Paul B.