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by tin1

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I am running Windows 2000 Service pack 2 on PC Workstations. I have 5 Novell,1 NFS, and 1 Windows 2k mapped drives. I log onto the network using Novells' client. When I open Windows explorer and select a drive, mapped or not it may take up to 20 seconds to open the folder. Also when I do a file open from any application and use the drop down list I see the same problem.

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by satyre

Windows often has a problem with some mapped drives or local drives. Windows goes out and polls each of the shares you are mapped to and checks your CD and local drives before it gives you the GUI explorer. You might want to check your network connection and see how many bytes you are transferring when this slowness occurs. Another thing you could do is to install SP3 as it has helped a little ith our network slowness, even if Microsoft is having more and more code bloat.

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