XP+SP2 Explorer Very Slow

[Paul Slocum]

Doing normal stuff in Windows Explorer is very slow after installing
SP2. Right clicking on files, opening files, etc often takes 5-10
seconds. But when I disable my LAN connection, everything works fine.

-paul

 

[RickM]

A quick regedit should fix your issue.
1) Start>>>Run>>>type in regedit
2) Back up the registry by going to file then
export...name the backup and save.
3) Browse to the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\
4) Right click on RPCSS and choose modify
5) Change teh value to LocalSystem
6) Reboot

 

[Paul Slocum]

Doing normal stuff in Windows Explorer is very slow after installing

SP2. Right clicking on files, opening files, etc often takes 5-10
seconds. But when I disable my LAN connection, everything works fine.

Figured it out. I have a mapped shared drive from another computer and
that computer is down right now. Appears that Explorer was trying to
contact it and waiting for a response whenever I did anything. Nice
design there.

-paul

 

[Malke]

Figured it out. I have a mapped shared drive from another computer
and
that computer is down right now. Appears that Explorer was trying to
contact it and waiting for a response whenever I did anything. Nice
design there.

-paul

Thanks for telling us what was happening. Actually, this is set by you
when you tell the computer to reconnect to network drives at log on.
This is not a Windows-centric design; other operating systems work this
way with networks, too. And of course, there is no way for a
workstation to know that another machine to which it is supposed to
connect is broken. So it checks until the time-out takes effect.

Malke

 

[Darren Coolidge]

Thanks for telling us what was happening. Actually, this is set by you
when you tell the computer to reconnect to network drives at log on.
This is not a Windows-centric design; other operating systems work this
way with networks, too. And of course, there is no way for a
workstation to know that another machine to which it is supposed to
connect is broken. So it checks until the time-out takes effect.

Malke

I am experiencing this problem and it is causing many minutes of my
time any time I do anything. Is explorer trying to reconnect at every
explorer directory change? How can I change my system so that it
doesn't try to reconnect at every directory change if that is the
case?

I am an admin on my laptop but not an admin on the domain where the
decision to create those mapped drives are made.

Any time I work from home this is a problem.

 

[Malke]

I am experiencing this problem and it is causing many minutes of my
time any time I do anything. Is explorer trying to reconnect at every
explorer directory change? How can I change my system so that it
doesn't try to reconnect at every directory change if that is the
case?

I am an admin on my laptop but not an admin on the domain where the
decision to create those mapped drives are made.

Any time I work from home this is a problem.

You should always start a new thread if you want help separate from the
Original Poster instead of hijacking an older one. I wouldn't have even
seen your post if I didn't always check threads with my responses first
since this thread started days ago - a very long time in this
particular newsgroup, which gets about 1,000 new posts a day. This is
especially true in the case of this thread, which is closed because the
OP was answered and the issue resolved.

Repost your question new, including all information about your network
and how you connect to your domain from home. My guess is that you've
logged onto the domain from home over a slow connection, but without
more information from you it's impossible to tell. I'll look for your
new post.

Malke