re: Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 10:52 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Feivel (10 messages posted) Under Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services BOTH RPC (Remote Procedure Call) should be set to auto and enabled. Apparently, one has to do with speeding file access in Explorer (or other third party replacements). All I can say is that I used to suffer from 1 - 2 minute delay when I accessed Explorer, ran teh second RPC and no more delay. On Tuesday, August 28, 2001 at 5:57 am, Kev wrote: >Hi, > >I get strange 'pauses' from Explorer in Win2k when opening a new explorer window >or navigating to some folders in the Open File dialog. During a pause, which generally >last about 5 seconds, the Explorer process effectively locks up and consumes 100% >CPU. > >This only happens on some folders, and then not all the time... But it does happen >often. I'm pretty sure this problem started to occur after installing SP2. > >The machine is a 1GHz Athlon home built box with Win2K Advanced Server SP2. > >I am not on a network so don't have any drives mapped, however I do have a basic >10/100 network card installed. > >Any ideas? > >Thanks for your time, > >Kev Written in response to: Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows (Kev: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 at 5:57 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows (Kev: Tue, Aug 28, 2001, 5:57 am) re: Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows (Feivel: Sun, Oct 14, 2001, 10:52 am) re: Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows (Curt R: Tue, Aug 28, 2001, 6:42 am) re: Strange pauses when opening file dialogs or explorer windows (Kev: Tue, Aug 28, 2001, 6:48 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum