File browsing is very slow

[Guest]

I have 2 computers networked in my home. One has XP Home the other has XP Pro.
I had to reimage the XP Home system due to a program my daughter downloaded
and corrupted the system. The image I had to use was a few months old. Ever
since I did that the XP Pro system is very slow to browse files when I click
on my computer or click on any program drop down boxes like IE Address bar
Sometimes it will take about 30 seconds or more
I have disconnected any mapped drives thinking it was causing a mapped drive
browse issue. I made sure that they are in the same workgroup. They both have
SP2 on them. I did all the performance options like defrag and delete cache
files so on.
Does anyone have any ideas

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

It's some relic of dhcp, though I can't guess what. I would try setting a
Static IP for the Nic card properties (in tcp/ip properties)

Network Connections folder, rightclick the LAN card icon, Properties, then
tcp/ip properties, set IP to whatever is reported by running IPCONFIG on her
machine (from command prompt) For example 192.168.0.2, subnet 255.255.255.0

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info. I tried it but to no avail. I did figure out what the
problem was though. It turned out to be a corrupted profile on the XP Pro
system. It seems that my daughter could not use the other computer( XP Home)
because of the problem she created so she used the XP Pro system. I saw that
her folder share was not showing up and that the scheduled backups were not
accessing her My Documents folder. I looked in her profile and saw a file
with the name ~. I realized then that her profile was corrupted. I deleted it
and logged back in as her to recreate it and it has been working fine.