I have recently loaded the XP Upgrade on 4 Dell Dimension
8100's. They are all 1.3 ghz, 128 mb ram, FAT32
machines. After loading XP Word, Excel, etc are running
real slow. Also, files on network shares seem to take
forever to come up. The network server is a Dell
PowerEdge running Windows 2000 SP3, 1ghz and 256mb of
ram. Once they finally do come up it is almost
impossible to save the file. It always comes up with
file in use or some other reason that it can not resave
the file. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks

Hi Carl,

RE: "impossible to save the file. It always comes up with file in use or some other
reason"

Sounds like this may be the Opportunistic Locking (OpLocks) problem that applies to
networks running a Windows 2000 SP3 Domain Controller with Windows XP SP1 clients.
For more information, see:

Microsoft Smallbusiness Server 2000 - Frequently Asked Questions
Authors: Mariëtte Knap, Susan Bradley, Steve Foster and Merv Porter
Frequently Asked Questions about Workstations
I get an error when I try to save a file in Office
http://www.smallbizserver.net/sbs200...in_Office.aspx

Fixing Windows XP Network Performance Problems
By: Brien M. Posey
http://www.brienposey.com/kb/XP_Network_Problems.asp

You may also want to read one of the many Google Groups Archived newsgroup threads on
the subject:

----- Begin Original Message Header -----
From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.security
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: Errors Opening Network Based Spreadsheets using Excel 97
Link to Google Groups Archived Thread:
http://www.google.com/groups?&selm=3...%40pacbell.net
----- End Original Message Header -----

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Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Carl" <calbor AT rimss DOT com>
: Wrote in message news:303901c3550b$acaff600$(E-Mail Removed)
: Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 08:25 AM
: I have recently loaded the XP Upgrade on 4 Dell Dimension
: 8100's. They are all 1.3 ghz, 128 mb ram, FAT32
: machines. After loading XP Word, Excel, etc are running
: real slow. Also, files on network shares seem to take
: forever to come up. The network server is a Dell
: PowerEdge running Windows 2000 SP3, 1ghz and 256mb of
: ram. Once they finally do come up it is almost
: impossible to save the file. It always comes up with
: file in use or some other reason that it can not resave
: the file. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks