"Save As" VERY slow

[Guest]

Hi,

I have been battling a very annoying performance problem when navigating
directories especially when doing a "Save As" but also when opening files or
sometimes just in Windows Explorer moving around. Each time I click on a new
folder I often have to wait a minute or more before it opens up that folder.
If I click on the list box to see all the drives that takes forever too. I
do have several network drives mapped and they too are slow to access but
this happens even when I'm strictly navigating folders on local drives. I'm
on XP SP2. What gives? One other data point. I have an application called
Total Commander which is similar to Windows Explorer. It suffers from none
of these delays and performance is very fast. That's fine for certain things
but obviously it's not being used when I do a "Save As" or go to open a file.

Thanks!

Bob

 

[RJK]

Doing a "Save As" in WHAT application program ?

Have you chkdsk'd your drives recently, before defragmenting them ?
....you're not running out of hard disk space are you?

....ooops just spotted the word "network" ....I'm outa here !!!

regards, Richard

 

[Kelly]

Many have claimed that this has/had to do with Microsoft Service Pack 3 to
fix the security issue with Word. If this is the case for you, an Office
issue, try their groups and good luck!

On another note, try line 157:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm


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Troubleshooting Windows XP
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