Documents and Programs slow to open by double clicking icon.

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

i'd be game to try that. You have some ideas?

Yes, I do have some ideas. Using RegMon and FileMon to trace what's
happening under the hood.
Check this excellent Blog post:
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/08/case-of-intermittent-and-annoying.html

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I really appreciate it. I'm
really
at wits end here and our IT department has no clue. I'm ready to just try
re-installing everything. Tonight I deleted every key with \\192.168.0.4 in
it, and \\office0-bdo and still same problem. I tried creating a brand new
user but same problem. More below...

Michael,

I noticed this from your post " but when I'm at work no problem". I think
this is a normal situation when the system is used at home, given that
there
are lot of UNC references in the registry, for printers, accounting
software, and for others.

history here - this laptop was working fine both at work and at home until I
upgraded its hard drive, re-installed everything, and copied over my files.
The only difference was before it had Windows XP Home on it, which must have
been a mistake because XP Pro came with the laptop. This time I installed
Windows right off the Dell CD that came with the laptop.

Also what's a UNC. I noticed that throughout the registry but I don't know
what it stands for.

Perhaps you can send me a remote assistance ticket so that I can try to
fix
this issue.

i'd be game to try that. You have some ideas?

I just thought of something that might help. After I installed everything IT
tried to join me to the domain at work, but it screwed me up on my home
network so we took it back off the domain and I'm on a workgroup now. Might
that have something to do with it? I can't remember if I was getting delays
before the whoe domain fiasco...

 

[Guest]

This problem can also be caused by ACT!8. The preload setting needs to be
changed from -stayrunning to -preload in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

[Guest]

This problem can be caused by ACT!8. The preload setting needs to be
changed from -stayrunning to -preload in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run