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Dan Sheehan
I noticed that while VPN'ed into work from my home machine, every time
I would choose a program of the Start Menu, Windows XP SP2 would appear
to hang for no reason for like 10 seconds (enough to be frustrating).
Suspecting it had to do with the machine's VPN connection into work
temporarily cutting it off from local machines, I fired up NTFILEMON to
see what Windows was trying to do when I started any program, such as
Internet Explorer, from the Start Menu.
For whatever reason, when an application was selected, EXPLORER.EXE
tries to access H:\username (where the username is my home network
username).
There are two problems with this operation.
#1. While VPN'ed into work, I do not have access to my home directory
on my home network, so the access attempt fails and causes the system
to hang temporarily.
#2. There is no H:\username folder to begin with. I have my H drive
mapped to \\server\share\username (since you can map a drive letter to
a sub folder) and there is no "username" folder when I open up my H:
drive, so it shouldn't be trying to access that path anyway.
EXPLORER.EXE has no reason to access my H: drive when I fire up a
standard application anyway. Why on earth would it want to check my
Home directory (not to mention the path is incorrect).
Can someone PLEASE tell me why EXPLORER is taking it upon itself to go
somewhere that it doesn't need to and doesn't even exist? I searched my
entire registry for H:\username and found no references.
Dan Sheehan
MCSE 2003 + Messaging
I would choose a program of the Start Menu, Windows XP SP2 would appear
to hang for no reason for like 10 seconds (enough to be frustrating).
Suspecting it had to do with the machine's VPN connection into work
temporarily cutting it off from local machines, I fired up NTFILEMON to
see what Windows was trying to do when I started any program, such as
Internet Explorer, from the Start Menu.
For whatever reason, when an application was selected, EXPLORER.EXE
tries to access H:\username (where the username is my home network
username).
There are two problems with this operation.
#1. While VPN'ed into work, I do not have access to my home directory
on my home network, so the access attempt fails and causes the system
to hang temporarily.
#2. There is no H:\username folder to begin with. I have my H drive
mapped to \\server\share\username (since you can map a drive letter to
a sub folder) and there is no "username" folder when I open up my H:
drive, so it shouldn't be trying to access that path anyway.
EXPLORER.EXE has no reason to access my H: drive when I fire up a
standard application anyway. Why on earth would it want to check my
Home directory (not to mention the path is incorrect).
Can someone PLEASE tell me why EXPLORER is taking it upon itself to go
somewhere that it doesn't need to and doesn't even exist? I searched my
entire registry for H:\username and found no references.
Dan Sheehan
MCSE 2003 + Messaging