Re: Drop-Downs For Save As & File Open Are VERY S-L-O-W

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Always glad to help. No, not the same guy. What I don't know about Novell
software fills several thick volumes. :-))


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Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User


"HowardTheTek" <X_Tek_X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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WOW! You must eat & sleep in this forum :) After I posted this msg, I
walked the dog. By the time I got back, BAM! there you were - ==> and
with the solution. Whata Guy!

I had a drive X: mapped to the memory card slot of an HP
All-in-One-Crapola. The software and printer driver were uninstalled
months ago because it caused delays all over the place. But the uninstall
never removed the permanently mapped drive X: After removing it, my
normal(?) response is back.

Thanks so much for your vigil.

Regards.

P.S.
Are you the same Tom Ferguson supporting some Novell forums?

=============================
>>> Tom Ferguson<tomf@xxxxxxxx> 10/15/05 07:59AM >>>
Check to see what printer is selected as default and make sure it is
always available to the affected computer. Also, make sure that any
mapped networked drives are available if those drives are used for
opening or saving documents.

Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User

"HowardTheTek" <X_Tek_X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23popT8Y0FHA.3896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Office 2003 is installed on Pent-4 3GHz w/ 1GB RAM.

Whenever I use the File Open or Save As dialog, the drop-down list for
selecting the target location operates at a painfully slow rate. When I
click the drop-down arrow-head or when I dbl-clk a directory it can take
up to 60 seconds for the display to perform the operation.

This is happening on only one of my several PCs.

This only happens in MSFT Office apps. All of the other apps do not have
this pregnant pause. Navigating within Windows Explorer appears to
respond timely.

When deleting an icon on the desktop, there sometimes is a 5-to-10 second
delay before the confirmation box is displayed.

That's about all of the anomalies I can think of that might be related.

Is there any hope for me (and my PC, too)? :)

Thanks for the assist.



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Office 2003 is installed on Pent-4 3GHz w/ 1GB RAM.

Whenever I use the File Open or Save As dialog, the drop-down list for
selecting the target location operates at a painfully slow rate. When I
click the drop-down arrow-head or when I dbl-clk a directory it can take
up to 60 seconds for the display to perform the operation.

This is happening on only one of my several PCs.

This only happens in MSFT Office apps. All of the other apps do not have
this pregnant pause. Navigating within Windows Explorer appears to
respond timely.

When deleting an icon on the desktop, there sometimes is a 5-to-10 second
delay before the confirmation box is displayed.

That's about all of the anomalies I can think of that might be related.

Is there any hope for me (and my PC, too)? :)

Thanks for the assist.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


WOW! You must eat & sleep in this forum :) After I posted this msg, I
walked the dog. By the time I got back, BAM! there you were - ==> and
with the solution. Whata Guy!

I had a drive X: mapped to the memory card slot of an HP
All-in-One-Crapola. The software and printer driver were uninstalled
months ago because it caused delays all over the place. But the uninstall
never removed the permanently mapped drive X: After removing it, my
normal(?) response is back.

Thanks so much for your vigil.

Regards.

P.S.
Are you the same Tom Ferguson supporting some Novell forums?

=============================
>>> Tom Ferguson<tomf@xxxxxxxx> 10/15/05 07:59AM >>>
Check to see what printer is selected as default and make sure it is
always available to the affected computer. Also, make sure that any
mapped networked drives are available if those drives are used for
opening or saving documents.

Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP
Windows Shell/User

"HowardTheTek" <X_Tek_X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23popT8Y0FHA.3896@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Office 2003 is installed on Pent-4 3GHz w/ 1GB RAM.

Whenever I use the File Open or Save As dialog, the drop-down list for
selecting the target location operates at a painfully slow rate. When I
click the drop-down arrow-head or when I dbl-clk a directory it can take
up to 60 seconds for the display to perform the operation.

This is happening on only one of my several PCs.

This only happens in MSFT Office apps. All of the other apps do not have
this pregnant pause. Navigating within Windows Explorer appears to
respond timely.

When deleting an icon on the desktop, there sometimes is a 5-to-10 second
delay before the confirmation box is displayed.

That's about all of the anomalies I can think of that might be related.

Is there any hope for me (and my PC, too)? :)

Thanks for the assist.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Office 2003 is installed on Pent-4 3GHz w/ 1GB RAM.

Whenever I use the File Open or Save As dialog, the drop-down list for
selecting the target location operates at a painfully slow rate. When I
click the drop-down arrow-head or when I dbl-clk a directory it can take
up to 60 seconds for the display to perform the operation.

This is happening on only one of my several PCs.

This only happens in MSFT Office apps. All of the other apps do not have
this pregnant pause. Navigating within Windows Explorer appears to
respond timely.

When deleting an icon on the desktop, there sometimes is a 5-to-10 second
delay before the confirmation box is displayed.

That's about all of the anomalies I can think of that might be related.

Is there any hope for me (and my PC, too)? :)

Thanks for the assist.






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