Thanks in advance for any help , anyone can give me with this problem.

Whenever I reboot , I get an error message saying . unable to initialize service. When I go to the event viewer . I find that perfnet I cannot load. I really don't notice any problems with the machine , but it's annoying to have an error message every time I reboot.

I've done a search on this board for perfnet , but I only found a couple messages , and they really didn't help me much.

This error seem to start after I tried to attach my laptop to the network. The laptop belongs to the office but we don't have a fast Internet connection there and it has ether net built-in. My laptop can get on the Internet . but even if I make it part of my workgroup here at home . I cannot connect to the other computers on the network.

Is this because of the perfnet issue above? Or is this a separate issue? I guess I have two questions don't I! Any help would be appreciated!