"Searching for items..." in Status Bar repeats every second

[Keith Jakobs, MCP]

Greetings:

I have come across an interesting issue that I can not seem to find a
specific reference to despite my substantial 'googling'......

When I open Windows Explorer, and go directly to my 'My Documents' folder,
which has been redirected to a network storage drive, the Status Bar
continually repeats the phrase 'Searching for items...". If you pay
attention closely enough, you can see the mouse icon flash briefly to an
hourglass. The issue does not remain for long, but does happen about every
second. It does not cause a noticeable CPU spike, and I have confirmed that
the Indexing Service is not running. What it DOES cause is an incredibly
annoying inability to select drives or folders from the drop-down list in
many of my applications. When I click on the drop-down box to browse for a
file, the box will enumerate my documents and then quickly close, without
giving me enough time to make drive selection.

My 'googling' efforts seemed to only reveal information related to this
issue when explorer takes a long time to intialize. In my case, my
enumerations come up right away and suffers no delay. My problem is why is
it running every second, and can anyone tell me where I can disable it
(registry, control panel, or otherwise).

Thanks in advance....

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP

 

[Guest]

Looks to me that your problem is with the network storage device.

 

[pcbutts1]

It's the redirect to the network drive. Windows will constantly search all
mapped drive to make sure that they are still connected.

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[Keith Jakobs, MCP]

Ok... Sound reasonable, except.....

Though we only have three other users using XP in this environment, I am the
only one that seems to have the problem (and I am the Network Engr/Admin).

And how do I disable it???

Thanks!

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP