there are loads of minor annoyances like that that happen without a network. you can easily find them by scanning the knowledge base for "loopback adapter". :-)
much of the windows infrastructure depends on RPC (both local and remote RPC) [and starting in Win7/2008R2 on WinRM]. ________________________________________ From: Ben Scott [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FYI: Vista without a network interface = can't clear the event log FYI: If you install Vista on a computer without a network interface, then go into Windows Event Log, and attempt a "Save and clear" operation, it will fail with the error message: Event Viewer could not clear the log. The following error occurred: The network path was not found You can still do a two-step save-then-clear, at the cost of loosing atomicity. Adding the "Microsoft Loopback Adapter" will make it work. (Removing it again makes it not work, after rebooting.) One of the goofier bugs I've seen in Vista so far. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
