Hi,
you may call this drive verification, but I'm not sure anyone else - Microsoft included - would. Whats basically happening is that the your drives are being enumerated so that all of the available destinations can be offered for you to save to. If this takes a long time, then the only reason I can assume is that you have a whole lot of drives, either local or mapped, to be enumerated. If this is not the case then I apologise. Short of rethinking your data storage strategy (IE centralizing data and using fewer drives)then another option would be to specify custom default user locations. If your users generally store to a particular location, then edit the following registry keys to point to those locations - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel\Options\DefaultPath
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\PowerPoint\RecentFolderList\Default
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Options\DOC-PATH
If these settings will change per user then use a logon script to apply a registry fragment (regedit /S). if they are common to all users then another (not favoured) option would be to edit the ntuser.dat for default user. I haven't tried using the %username% etc variables in these values so I don't know if that would be an option for homedrives \ personal storage areas. You will be able to use a drive letter though. By this means the users should only need to use the save in drop down box to save to other areas. Hope this helps...
