re: Slow
Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 11:35 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ryan
(1 messages posted)
Chris:
I had a mapped device that was not connecting. Previously, my drop-down lists were
taking 15 sec. to populate. After removing the bad device, my list populates in
3-4 sec.
Thanks for your help!
On Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 6:42 am, Chris Boes wrote:
>Sean,
>
>A few of us in the office here recently had that problem on Win2000 machines. Here
>is what we found and how we fixed it.
>
>When you click the Look In drop-down, windows tries to ckeck out all your network
>shares before dropping down. On our machines, we had an old connection to a network
>share that no longer existed. To find and fix, open Explorer (right-click the start
>button, click Explore on the pop-up menu). Under My Computer, right-click each
network
>share listed. If you have the same problem we did, you will find one or more that
>take a very long time to show the pop-up menu. If these are no longer valid shares,
>disconnect them (right-click the share, click Disconnect from the pop-up menu).
>After we disconnected the offending share, everything ran lickidy-split again!
>
>Good Luck,
>-cb
>
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- re: Slow (Chris Boes: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 at 6:42 am)
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 |  | re: Slow (Chris Boes: Wed, Nov 28, 2001, 6:42 am) |
|  |  | re: Slow (Rajesh Kumar: Tue, Oct 1, 2002, 12:01 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (David Hyre: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 4:34 pm) |
| | | | re: Slow (Roland: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 1:56 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (screen: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 3:08 pm) |
| | |  | re: Slow (Matthew: Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 8:12 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (David Hyre: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 2:31 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Jeremy: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 3:49 pm) |
| | | | re: Slow (Ian Lazerwitz: Sat, Mar 15, 2003, 3:41 pm) |
| | | | | re: Slow (Brian: Tue, Apr 29, 2003, 2:34 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Fri, May 16, 2003, 11:10 am) |
| | | | re: Slow (Bill Kearney: Fri, May 16, 2003, 11:21 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (jo jo: Tue, Jun 17, 2003, 3:13 pm) |
| | | re: Slow (Ryan: Thu, May 29, 2003, 11:35 am) |
| | | | re: Slow (Jim: Fri, Oct 17, 2003, 8:20 am) |
| | | | | re: Slow (Jason: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 9:38 am) |
| | re: Slow (RR: Wed, Oct 27, 2004, 10:11 am) |
| | re: Slow (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 6:11 am) |
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