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Hey cholla Thanks for the tip. I noticed that your using 78% of your cpu usage? Whew.Last time I had that was when I was running a Creative Sound Card and it has a little ditty running in the processes called CTTask.exe.and it slowed my puter down alot.Again thanks for the tip. Cheers-Dave

AHHHHHHHHHH Another learning curve, For ME I had almost forgotten how my dial-up was when I had it(5 1/2 years) I don't think I understood processes at all back then, just like lsass.exe now. :

If it did, it wasn't obvious right away. I started trying to install SHIII a few days before the error  happend on that Sat.( six times, I think) But Sat I was doing what their support guys said to do "end processes on everything but system tray and explorer.exe." But with XP you can't do that(I should know better) there are many items that won't "end". So as I'm doing this(ending processes) a few did end but several would not via a warning but when I came to lsass.exe and clicked "end process" I didn't get any warning BUT I did get the dreaded 60 second shutdown notice and my system shut down But only once. And then I went through the whole thing about running my anti-virus and any other program I could think of and came up clean. I started studying lsass.exe on the net(forums, sites, etc.) to no avail. And then later in the afternoon on Sat. the error popped up out of the blue That's when I got on the forum with you guys.

cak46 I thought it might be a good idea to ask 99 RAT about the start of the problem again.So if he just ended processes they should have automatically came back on.It doesn't look like it worked that way.Unless he did disable or delete them some way guess we need to find out if he just ended processes or did more.Would ending processes ever cause the 60 second shutdown warning & shut down in XP? Or would it take more to do that(like disabling or deleting.)
I know its not the same as his network connections window but his network adapter list looked long to me.
Just some thoughts on this to see if this might lead you in a direction to find the problem. 

Hi guys. OK, I had all the trouble installing SHIII up to and including the 11th. Later in the afternoon on the 11th is when the error started, BUT AFTER I clicked to "end process" on lsass.exe, I got the 60 second doom, then later I got the error. On Sunday, the 12th, I installed XP Pro and then the game installed cleanly. But of course I still had the error :cry:Days later I uninstalled SHIII just to get it out of the way. I ran a complete search and deleted all things SHIII and then ran PC Rescue to remove any "shrapnel" from the registry or any other files: links, shortcuts etc,  that the "shrapnel" might be in

cak46, I can send you my "Network Properties" page but it's still blank

BTW here is the message I get when I open "Network Connections" from my Control Panel

I'll be back after awhile. I'm going to watch Vin Diesel's new movie, "The Pacifier" He's babysitting kids

Try setting your desktop to classic view by clicking start, then click at the top where your user name is with the right mouse button, then click properties.  This will put the network places icon on your desktop.  Next, right mouse click once on the network places icon, then click properties to see your network connections (hopefully).  If its empty, try this:
Start your machine in "Safemode with networking".  Log in as Administrator and check for your network connections from there.  Can't remember whether you tried this or not.
Sounds like it's trying to load something that it can't load, either because it's missing or the program that is trying to load is dependent upon another that isn't loaded.  (If this makes any sense to you......) Don't bother with the network connections screen print if its just blank.  Had forgotten about that   . 

Just found this...
http://www.adminlife.com/247reference/msgs/20/100691.aspx

Try this first (excerpt from link above)
Click Start>Run the type in Services.msc and click run button.  The list of services on your computer will come up.  Check to see if the network connections service is running.  If it isn't, right mouse click once on it and click enable.
If it doesn't start, post the error message here.
 
If it is enabled then do this:
in Start/Run type these lines and hit ENTER after each line

regsvr32 netshell.dll
regsvr32 netcfgx.dll
regsvr32 netman.dll

Then reboot and try to view your network connections again.
BTW: These commands will re-register the dlls in your registry. (Put back entires which may have been removed by something else.... 
If you get any errors, please post them.  We may be on to something here......

Yeah, "goin' on a benda"', as we say here in Maine .......
Sorry about the start menu. I left a step out.  When you get into the properties of the "Start menu", check off "Classic View".     Was the network connections service enabled in your Services list?  Try starting the service manually by getting to a command prompt, then type in     net start netman

I think the shrapnel from this thing is getting a little too much. It's seems to be permeating throughout my system.. Now look at what I get when I try to get into system info! And then the network thing. And the mouse thing which also seems to affecting the way windows media 10 works, ie, I can't close it out the way I always did. And the windows scripting thing when I open the ultimate troubleshooter. Too many cooties I have reinstalled the mouse, maybe 4 times, windows media 10 at least once. I can't just click on a video to watch it, I have to refresh the screen several times before it will "take" whew. Do you think that all this is coming from one cootie? Or maybe a couple cooties. BTW, just in case, this morning I put in a second hard drive(slave) in my unit, and that could be my backup file storage for transfering all files and folders if it comes to that. Now that's something that I have done before, also done some cloning, etc. The really neat thing about xp is that you can go to "disk manager" and click on "disk mangement" and actually see all your drives in graph form right in windows! From there you can format, create a partition, create logical drive, name, letter, etc. It's so cool. Almost eliminates the need for the F/disk stuff.

Oh, BTW I read last night about a fix that I almost tried and the sad thing is that it probably would have except for the version difference. :cry:Some guy on a forum suggested copying  a good lsass file from another machine and pasting it right onto the one in question(mine) well my kitchen puter is xp pro BUT from 2002 and mine is brand new with sp2. The first part of the version # was OK but the last part did not jive ie; I would be pasting and older lsass file onto a newer one I'll post the link after I submit this-cheers