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[Michael]

I have installed WinXP on my new computer (3 GHz, 1 Gb RAM).
It's fast loading applications, but when I had it networked through a hub,
loading applications went slow, even when I have excel opened and double
clicked another excel file, loading it in the open instance takes a long
time (at least 3 seconds compared to instantaneous without networking), as
though there isn't enough memory.
Is there a configuration I have missed?

 

[Guest]

Sounds like it may be searching for other drives on the
network.

Click Start - My Computer - Tools - Folder Options -
View - then uncheck the box "Automatically search for
network folders and printers"

Hope this works for you

 

[Michael]

Hi,

Thansk you for your reply.
I've tried your approach also, but it's still going slow.
I'm wondering if it hasn't something to do with DDE.

Any idea?

 

[Michael]

In case if someone is interested, I've found why.
Just uncheck Client for Microsoft Network for the network connection and all
seems to go smoothly.