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

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Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I really appreciate it. I'm really
at wits end here and our IT department has no clue. I'm ready to just try
re-installing everything. Tonight I deleted every key with \\192.168.0.4 in
it, and \\office0-bdo and still same problem. I tried creating a brand new
user but same problem. More below...

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Michael,

I noticed this from your post " but when I'm at work no problem". I think
this is a normal situation when the system is used at home, given that there
are lot of UNC references in the registry, for printers, accounting
software, and for others.

history here - this laptop was working fine both at work and at home until I
upgraded its hard drive, re-installed everything, and copied over my files.
The only difference was before it had Windows XP Home on it, which must have
been a mistake because XP Pro came with the laptop. This time I installed
Windows right off the Dell CD that came with the laptop.

Also what's a UNC. I noticed that throughout the registry but I don't know
what it stands for.


Perhaps you can send me a remote assistance ticket so that I can try to fix
this issue.

i'd be game to try that. You have some ideas?

I just thought of something that might help. After I installed everything IT
tried to join me to the domain at work, but it screwed me up on my home
network so we took it back off the domain and I'm on a workgroup now. Might
that have something to do with it? I can't remember if I was getting delays
before the whoe domain fiasco...


--
Regards,

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


"michael.dyck" <michaeldyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here are a few other symptoms:
1) when I connect to work VPN I can load files off my hard drive without
delay
2) if I type a file name (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet) into the Run box or
from a command prompt it loads the file without delay

the server at work is on 192.168.0.4. I looked through network settings
(TCPIP, DNS, etc) but I don't know much about these. I even tried changing
settings and nothing helped. This one is really stumping me.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

Didn't see anything too obviously wrong but lots of it was meaningless
to
me.

Can I have the report? Perhaps they're pointing to a network share /IP in
your domain?

--
Regards,

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


"michael.dyck" <michaeldyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

--
Regards,

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







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