re: Slow
Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 6:42 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris Boes
(1 messages posted)
Sean,
A few of us in the office here recently had that problem on Win2000 machines. Here
is what we found and how we fixed it.
When you click the Look In drop-down, windows tries to ckeck out all your network
shares before dropping down. On our machines, we had an old connection to a network
share that no longer existed. To find and fix, open Explorer (right-click the start
button, click Explore on the pop-up menu). Under My Computer, right-click each network
share listed. If you have the same problem we did, you will find one or more that
take a very long time to show the pop-up menu. If these are no longer valid shares,
disconnect them (right-click the share, click Disconnect from the pop-up menu).
After we disconnected the offending share, everything ran lickidy-split again!
Good Luck,
-cb
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 4:24 pm, Sean wrote:
>Our office just purchased some new Win2k workstations... SP2 is installed.
>
>They are also running the lastest Novell client (4.8) with the latest Novell Service
>Pack.
>
>The machines are very fast on the network, but there is often a 10 to 20 second
pause
>whenever you use the "Open File" option from any program. The pause comes when you
>drop down the "Look In" list that shows you all of your drive letters and network
>options. Finally the list appears, and you can browse mapped network drives without
>any slowness or pauses whatsoever.
>
>The pause only seems to happen after you have not used your network drives for
awhile.
>We have NT 4.0 workstations running the same Novell client without any problems.
>It only affects Win2000. It happens on all of our machines....Dell, IBM, etc.
>
>We tried disabling the computer browsing service, and setting IPX as preferred protocol
>for the Novell client. I also disabled offline folders. I even disabled realtime
>virus protection. Nothing has helped.
>
>Neither Novell nor Microsoft acknowledge this problem, but the Novell client seems
>to work fine with NT 4.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sean
- Written in response to:
- Slow "Look In" drop-down menus (Sean: Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 4:24 pm)
Responses to this message:
 | re: Slow (Rajesh Kumar: Tuesday, October 1, 2002 at 12:01 pm) |
| re: Slow (David Hyre: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 4:34 pm) |
| re: Slow (screen: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 3:08 pm) |
| re: Slow (Jeremy: Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 3:49 pm) |
| re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:10 am) |
 | re: Slow (Ryan: Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:35 am) |
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All messages in this thread [show all]
 |  | re: Slow (Chris Boes: Wed, Nov 28, 2001, 6:42 am) |
|  | | re: Slow (Rajesh Kumar: Tue, Oct 1, 2002, 12:01 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (David Hyre: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 4:34 pm) |
| | | | re: Slow (Roland: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 1:56 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (screen: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 3:08 pm) |
| | |  | re: Slow (Matthew: Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 8:12 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (David Hyre: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 2:31 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Jeremy: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 3:49 pm) |
| | | | re: Slow (Ian Lazerwitz: Sat, Mar 15, 2003, 3:41 pm) |
| | | | | re: Slow (Brian: Tue, Apr 29, 2003, 2:34 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Fri, May 16, 2003, 11:10 am) |
| | | | re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Fri, May 16, 2003, 11:21 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (jo jo: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 3:13 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Ryan: Thu, May 29, 2003, 11:35 am) |
| | | | re: Slow (Jim: Fri, Oct 17, 2003, 8:20 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (Jason: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 9:38 am) |
| | re: Slow (RR: Wed, Oct 27, 2004, 10:11 am) |
| | re: Slow (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 6:11 am) |
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