hi... new prbs... :P, well can say, a new experience... The prb is like, i've made a share folder on a windows 2003 server, that is accessed by all the users. That share folder is havin tons of excel files in it... The prb is like, when a user opens the file it works fine n he closes it, n if he tries to open it again, it gives a message that this file is already in use, open it as read-only... despite of the fact that the file is not in use... i did some googling, n found out that indexing is the culprit, and microsoft suggested this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954820, well the prb with this link is that windows 2003 server in my case is having sp1, and in this article they say that the prb is with sp2.... well i tried to change the indexing service, n it gave me some fatal warnin, that u won't be able to access n all... well can anyone suggest, wat cod be the possible solution... Currently i jus go to Manage n close all sessions... n if the prb does not resolves, i ask the user to log out n login again.....

Sometimes the problem is caused by the indexing service at the w2k3 server. So right click on My Computer | Manage | Services | double click on Indexing Service and disable it. Try again ! Should work.

i jus checked in services that indexing service is already disabled The exception to that rule is that if you have installed Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, then the Indexing Service is disabled by default

Is there a Windows Desktop Search in the Startup Folder? Removing that may help.

no windows desktop search in startup folder... but wat i've done is... Right CLick my Computer | Manage | Indexing Service | All Tasks | Never used... well so far users haven't faced any prb today... lets see if this helps thanx paulsep

Please let me know, if that really solved your problem.

sure........ i will let u kno the results...