Installed Ultimate on my fast Gateway desktop (4.5+ experience rating) in May. In July bought a new copy(Ultimate) for my wife’s Toshiba Tecra M7. Both have the exact same issue and I don’t see anyone else complaining about this (wierd).
The issue is that almost every time (>90%) a file open dialog or windows explorer is opened, the “searching…” appears in the bottom bar and it just sits there (no HD activity) for ~12 seconds. This is obviously VERY, VERY, VERY frustrating. I’m talking “throw it through a window” type frustration.
Now, more detail:
We are on a domain at home. At home or away, the performance is identical.
We run NDAS for two shared drives. These pre-date moving the file server to the house and are for photos and videos, so they need to stay external to a server. When the fires came, it took me 30 seconds to grab both drives and flee to Anaheim. I found the delay on her machine before installing NDAS (I did not get this data point on mine).
Our internet is 12MB/1MB, so there should be no hangups there. Internal network is mostly 100MB wired with some 1GB and some 802.11g. Which connection is used has no effect, nor does not having a connection.
Both machines are totally up to date.
Servers run Windows 2000 Advanced Server. One was upgraded to 2003, but the issues predate that.
I must have Windows, and I don’t want to roll back to XP for one issue. I use Xandros on my kids machines, so I don’t mind Linux at all, just not practical for the apps we use.
A big thanks in advance for this one!!!