Netowrk Locations on a Laptop

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It seems as though the performance on my laptop has slowed down. I ran
virus/spyware scans but there wasn't anything on the machine.

Through a coincidence we installed a new server and one of our desktops
slowed down. We tracked that down to the fact that there were a number of
connections to networks folders that no longer existed.

I deleted those same things on my laptop and the performance improved.

Is there a setting in Win XP/Pro that tells Windows to ignore network
folders that it cannot find at boot-up (like it does for a mapped drive)?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

It seems as though the performance on my laptop has slowed down. I ran
virus/spyware scans but there wasn't anything on the machine.

Through a coincidence we installed a new server and one of our
desktops slowed down. We tracked that down to the fact that there
were a number of connections to networks folders that no longer
existed.

Yes, this can be a problem - it's one of the more compelling reasons to use
login scripts so everyone always has the same drives, and they are never
remembered by Windows.

I deleted those same things on my laptop and the performance improved.

Is there a setting in Win XP/Pro that tells Windows to ignore network
folders that it cannot find at boot-up (like it does for a mapped
drive)?

If it isn't a mapped drive, it won't be there at startup.

Type

net use

in a command line, and see what you can see....