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re: Context menus take ages to appear
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 7:17 am
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Posted by alex (2812 messages posted)


This might work.Way back on this forum somebody mentioned this. In Explorer Tools\FolderOptions\under View uncheck box for Automatically search.........


On Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 5:23 am, phammo wrote:
>XP Pro machine that is a member of a domain. Works fine in the office. But if you
>take it home and log in under the domain account, when you right-click on files it
>takes maybe 10 seconds for the context menu to appear. Other operations such as deleting
>files are similarly affected.
>

>Problem is the same whether the PC is connected to the home network or not. By monitoring
>the network packets, it seems that when you right-click on a file, it tries to find
>the domain controller, and waits for a few seconds before giving up and finally dispalying
>the menu.
>

>Any way of fixing this behaviour?




Written in response to:
Context menus take ages to appear (phammo: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 5:23 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Context menus take ages to appear (phammo: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 1:50 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Context menus take ages to appear (phammo: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 5:23 am)
-re: Context menus take ages to appear (alex: Thu, Oct 18, 2007, 7:17 am)
*re: Context menus take ages to appear (phammo: Fri, Oct 19, 2007, 1:50 am)
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