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Opening "My Computer"

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by youngturk

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Doublle clicking on My Computer or opening Windows Explorer takes up to one minuit to display on my XP machine. Is there a registry tweak I can use so that I can get acces to my files immediately? If I try to save a file from any program it takes upto 30 seconds before I can see my drives to browse where I want to put the file. Any help is appreciated.

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youngturk

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by r. a. caluste

Everytime you open My Computer, Windows Explorer or even a file dialog box, windows tries to locate every available drive in your system. If you have a slow/faulty cd-rom drive, network-mapped drives, windows will try to reconnect to them or even read them until it succeeds or times-out.

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by youngturk

Perfect. I did have some network drives mapped to other machines that are usually off. I saw a big, big difference after I disconnected those network drives. Just about a two second delay now which is great.

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youngturk

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