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by rob.lucchetti

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Hello, I am reaching my wits end on this so any help is appreciated. I am running windows 2003, single server, A/D domain with DNS and DHCP runnning. When my clients try to work with WORD or Excel files that are on the server, the program seems to pause for a second or two, barring any changes being made to the document, or saving the document. The problem started when they went from peer to peer using and XP machine as the server, to a full domain as listed above. Any ideas. I have tried altering th TCP stack as per th Ms Knowledge bases, unchecking the "automatically look for folders" (something like that) option on the client, i am really stumped. They are running off a dell power edge server with a 73 gig scsi u320 drive in it. This slowness should not be happening. They are all connected through a linksys router thats about 2 years old, but that was working fine before we put in the server, so i cant imagine it being broken now.

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by Member 32254067

is thier alot of traffic going on throught your network? have u tried running a trace on the traffic to see if somthing is causing a bottleneck in your network?

by ross.bale

Check what Service Pack Levels you are running on Windows XP Pro Machines. We have a problem similar to this, it seems that after about 4 minutes of inactivity on a mapped drive or file opened from a mapped network drive, Windows XP seems to temporarily disconnect the drive mapping and then re-establishes it when the user clicks save which is what the delay is - the only solution I have found is to Upgrade to XP SP2 as this seems to fix lots of issues with mapped drives - PROCEED WITH CAUTION, SP2 changes a lot so needs thorough testing as I am currently doing.

by ross.bale

Rob,

Change the following registry keys, this should improve performance by about 80%.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\CryptoSignMenu]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00100000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{3EA48300-8CF6-101B-8
4FB-666CCB9BCD32}]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00100000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\{883373C3-BF89-11D1-B
E35-080036B11A03}]
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:00100000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\S
CAPI]
"Flags"=dword:00100c02

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