re: Slow Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 10:11 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by RR (1 messages posted) Have your tried an older version of Novell's client. I had a simalar problem sometime back and this worked for me. Novell's latest client software has a tendancy to slow things down or hang at times. 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: Slow to open files in Office apps (Bill Jacobs: Monday, March 12, 2007 at 10:53 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, 10:53 am) re: Slow (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 6:11 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