Dialog box takes a long time to come up

[Guest]

OK. Please bear with me here, I am going to try and explain everything that
is going on. I have 2 users on the network and both are having the same
issue. When they right click on a file, or even try to open the file it take
FOREVER. I have installed and ran 3 different spyware tools. Symantec has
not seen any issues either.

Now this is where is gets wierd. I start the machines in safe mode and
everything is fine. It turns out to be the network. When the user logs into
the machine without being physically connected to the network, the files open
fine. Once I connect the user back to the network is bombs.

So, network related. I connected the machines to the network and noticed
that when I tried to open the txt file, within command, I saw that there was
a connection trying to be made to a server that is no longer in service. It
is physically off.

The txt file has no information about this server, and there is nothing in
the host files. I have done a flushdns as well as a registerdns and there is
no change.

Any help would be great.

 

[Cyberbear]

OK. Please bear with me here, I am going to try and explain
everything that
is going on. I have 2 users on the network and both are having
the same
issue. When they right click on a file, or even try to open
the file it take
FOREVER. I have installed and ran 3 different spyware tools.
Symantec has
not seen any issues either.

Now this is where is gets wierd. I start the machines in safe
mode and
everything is fine. It turns out to be the network. When the
user logs into
the machine without being physically connected to the network,
the files open
fine. Once I connect the user back to the network is bombs.

So, network related. I connected the machines to the network
and noticed
that when I tried to open the txt file, within command, I saw
that there was
a connection trying to be made to a server that is no longer in
service. It
is physically off.

The txt file has no information about this server, and there
is nothing in
the host files. I have done a flushdns as well as a
registerdns and there is
no change.

Any help would be great.

Check to see if your computers have any mapped (shared) drives or
folders that are hosted on the server that is not online. If so,
and you are not using the shares any longer, then make sure you
remove them (disconnect network drive). Inaccessible shares will
cause this kind of slowdown.

 

[Guest]

Check to see if your computers have any mapped (shared) drives or
folders that are hosted on the server that is not online. If so,
and you are not using the shares any longer, then make sure you
remove them (disconnect network drive). Inaccessible shares will
cause this kind of slowdown.

I did check to make sure that there were no old connections to other shares
that are no longer there. I also rebooted the machine and removed any files
that would have been started up within the regestry, and it is still an
issue. the weird thing is the netstat that I run still shows the machine
trying to establish a connection to an old machine. Thanks for the input!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm