Re: Documents and Programs slow to open by double clicking icon.

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Ramesh:

Guess you figured already it's a laptop... more below:

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Michael,

See if there are any invalid mapped drive references in your system. If so,
remove them.

One map that is valid when I'm at work. I disconnected it but still delay.
I'll try a reboot as I noticed it was still in My Computer desite being
disconnected.


Do you have the right-click problem also, as indicated in the following
page?

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm


Yes - right click is slow too. Programs open fine though - just files don't
work. Everything works fine if I connect to work VPN or pull network cable. I
did the regScanner you suggested in your article but 521 results for "\\".
Didn't see anything too obviously wrong but lots of it was meaningless to me.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"michael.dyck" <michael.dyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was following this conversation because I have slow double-clicking file
open action at home, but when I'm at work no problem. So I ran the TDiMON
thingy and I got some TDI_CONNECT time-outs for System.4 processes trying to
look for things at IP addresses I regonize from work. Now what? How can I
fix
it?

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Hello Mark,

I'm sorry that a System Restore rollback did not help.

is the system restore soley limited to Window system files?

It restores the System Files, the registry, and COM+ databases. To best
explain this, see this excerpt from Microsoft site:

<Q>

System Restore reinstates the registry, local profiles, the COM+ database,
the Windows File Protection (WFP) cache (wfp.dll), the Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) database, the Microsoft IIS metabase, and files that
the utility copies by default into a Restore archive. You can't specify
what
to restore: it's all or nothing.

</Q>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/xpsysrst.mspx
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Coming to the actual problem, let's tackle it in a different way. To see
if
the problem is caused by a network drive reference in the registry,
download
TDIMon from www.sysinternals.com. Start TDIMon and start capturing events.
Now, double-click an Excel document. If there is a network activity,
TDImon
captures and displays it accurately. You want to monitor lines containing
string "TDI_CONNECT", which indicates that the system is trying to connect
to a network drive or share.

For example, the line may look like this:

System:4 827170C8 TDI_CONNECT TCP:192.168.1.10:1255 192.168.1.11:139

Where "192.168.1.10:1255" is the Local IP, and "192.168.1.11:139" is the
IP
of the remote computer.

Let me know how it goes. If there is no such activity, then the problem is
something else, which we have to find out yet.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Mark" <Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ramesh,

The registry settings queries I posted in my last reply is only a couple
out
of several hundred queries before document actually opens up. If you were
to
sum up those hundreds of queries even only taking a few msec each would
eventually end to be a delay in the seconds. I finally tried performing a
system restore a couple of times going further back each time to no
prevail.
Thanks for your assistance and if I can bother you just one last time. Not
being completely up to speed on what a system restore does, is the system
restore soley limited to Window system files? I figure if thats all it
does
and I saw no change in performance I can limit my search to the registry.

Thanks again for all your help!

The one good thing that came out of this is besides the delays in opening
certain documents, my system is fastest its ever been by learning more
about
services and graphical features that I didnt really need running such as
themes.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Mark,

Those queries take milli-seconds, and not probably causing the delay.
Must
be something else. If you have network drive shortcuts in your Desktop,
delete them.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com







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