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re: Slow
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 3:49 pm
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Posted by Jeremy (2 messages posted)

Thanks Chris...that worked for me as well. My manager was having this problem on his machine. He had two mappped drives that were no longer active. Once I disconnected them, the "Look In" drop down menu sped right up. I about pulled my hair out trying to resolve that one. I did a little searching and found your thread.....Thanks again sir!

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 6:42 am, Chris Boes wrote:
>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 If these are no longer valid shares,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
>