XP Mapped Network drive very slow access

[James Minard]

I have a NT 4.0 server that houses a directory containing over 1,000 jpg
image files. Windows 98 clients can access the directory very quickly,
however a PC with similar hardware as the 98 machines was recently wiped
clean and Windows XP was installed on it is extremely slow when attempting
to view the contents of this mapped network drive. Is there any way to
improve the performance on the XP machine when trying to access the network
drive? Does it have something to do with XP trying to create thumbnails of
the images or something everytime it opens the directory? We're not using
the thumbnail view or anything, and it's slowest when accessing the drive
from a Save or Open dialog box from within an application. Thanks

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

many possibilities. . make sure you have correct dns and wins settings. 2.
check the hardware settings such as switch/hub and nic.

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[James Minard]

DNS and WINS are set by the DHCP server, so if they were incorrect, all the
clients would have difficulty. I could check the duplex settings, but there
isn't any reason that they would have been changed from their default
settings, which would be Autoselect or Hardware Default. Again, it only
seems to have a problem with this rather large image (jpgs) directory, which
I didn't know if XP handled differently than 9x by trying to create
thumbnails or previews or something. It's relatively speedy when just
browsing to the server and not going to this directory.

James

 

[Guest]

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