Explorer responds lsowly when connected to network

[1]

Hi,


My office system - Win XP SP2 ; 1.GHz 512MB RAM - is connected to LAN.

Whenever I right-click on a file, or double-click to open it, the response
time is *very* slow : takes almost 40 - 80 seconds.

I noticed that this happens only when I'm connected to the network.

I have tried virus scans, defragmenting, resizing page size, cleaning up the
hard-disk, but no improvement.

That's when I figured out the network criterion.


Thing is, my colleague's computer, with the same configuration work
perfectly fine, when connected to the same network.

I'm flummoxed!

Please help!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[1]

Hi,
Thans, but -
I've already read this article, and tried out what's suggested.

But no improvement.

It's definately not due to extra menu-items in the context menu.


Any other ideas?

Help!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Try the steps carefully, and if none of them helps.

1. Check if you;ve configured RegScanner this way:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/images/regscan1.JPG

2. Search HKCU as well, for the \\ string. I've seen an instance where that
fixed this problem

3. What's the filetype involved (for which filetype the delay is seen) ?

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[1]

Ramesh, that did the trick!!

Thank you

It working great now, thanks a ton!

And just for info, the problem was occuring for all file types.

Thanks again Ramesh.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome

--
Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
http://www.winhelponline.com

 

[Guest]

Ramesh,
I seem to be having the same problem that 1 described and tried similar
solutions that 1 did. I was encouraged by his response to your suggestion,
but I don't understand it. First, I don't know specifically what/where the
RegScanner program is (not regedit, apparently). Secondly, if you find a
string "\\" in the data of the HKCR base key, what do you do about it?
Thanks

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Russ,

Pls see:

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm