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re: Slow
Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:10 am
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Posted by Bill Kearney (2 messages posted)


Perhaps a script that looked at the items in the Network Places, tried to connect them and delete the ones that failed might be workable. That same idea could be applied to deleting the files in %userprofile\Recent\*


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 If these are no longer valid shares,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


Written in response to:
re: Slow (Chris Boes: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 6:42 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Friday, May 16, 2003 at 11:21 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Slow "Look In" drop-down menus (Sean: Thu, Aug 16, 2001, 4:24 pm)
-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)
*Slow to open files in Office apps (Bill Jacobs: Mon, Mar 12, 2007, 9:53 am)
*re: Slow (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 6:11 am)
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