Extreme Network Slowdown

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cfryer

HELLO AND PLEASE HELP.

I just recently started encountering this problem.
Before I moved, my network worked great. After I moved
and hooked the computers back up, I ran into the
following problem. I pulled this symptom from the
knowledge FAQ base.

When you attempt to browse the network by means of either
My Network Places or a program (that can access network
resources), your computer may experience an extreme
slowdown or the program may display a "Not Responding"
message

They said the cause is I have Kaspersky antivirus
installed on my PC. I don't. If I wait 5 minutes, the
program responds. Either accessing the drives through
the 'My Computer' or Nero. I just reformatted in hope it
would solve the problem it hasn't. This only happens on
1 of the machines. I have 3 PC's. 1 is a Dell 600SC
running Windows 2003 Server. My computer has Windows XP
Pro, and the second computer has the same. It is the
second computer that has this problem. I can't figure
out why. I have tried so many different things. Please
help.
 
As a thought I have noticed that I too have a reduction
in network response from time to time not regular. I
found that if you have any network drives linked that XP
is trying to re-establish the link with the networked
drive, thus causing a slow down. This of course is if the
network drives have a broken connection i.e the red X on
the drive icon.

Hope this is helpful.
 
I ran Ad-Aware and SpyBot before I reformatted my
computer. Since I just reformatted I have not spyware on
my PC. As for re-establishing the network drives, that
shouldn't cause the slowdown I'm experiencing. My
personal computer can establish the connection very
fast. I'm wondering if there is some setting on the
server I should be aware of?
 
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