Our small office runs six workstations (all XP Pro) off of a single SBS2003 server. With roaming profiles.
For a long time, the boss’ machine was very slow in responding, seemed to take forever for programs to launch files double-clicked over the network. We assumed it was a processor issue, and finally got fed up and upgraded the boss’ machine two weeks ago. Since that time, the gremlin has now invaded MY machine; whenever I’m attempting to right-click a file in My Network Places, it takes forever to come up with the right-click menu (this never used to happen). Occasionally, the window will go “non-responsive” and after a brief pause when it abandons what you were trying to do a right-click promptly brings up the menu. This even happens when using My Computer to access files on the local machine. I get the impression that this is a local issue (some setting or service on my machine) as opposed to a network issue, but I have included the “network” tag because it happened to more than one machine.
Also, double-clicking files (Word docs and .pdfs) takes a LONG time to open the files in the appropriate application, even if that application is already running on the machine.
I think whatever ghost was in the boss’ machine is now in my computer. Anyone know how I can get my speed (and my sanity) back?
