Laptop tries to connect to my other machines

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Don Quixote

Something is strange.
I have several PCs at home. Mostly XP.

A while ago, my laptop started to act slow whenever starting a program
or even when opening a text file.

I realized that every time I open a file with an extension other than
an executable it tries to connect to my other machine (and only to
that one) on port 445 AND 80 AND 139. So it takes 20-25 seconds before
it finally starts anything.

It looks like it has something to do with file association, but can't
find what is the problem.

Any suggestions on how to go about to figure out what is going on ?

Thanks

Sal
 
Those filetypes have an association with an application on another system.
start/run, type: REGEDT32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Extension
Change the path to the exe's to an app on your local system.
 
Thanks, but I had already looked at that.
Also, when I am away and of course it times out eventually, and it
does use the right program for it.
I checked the Open With assopcciations and everything looks right
there....


mmmmh....

S.
 
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