Long Pause when accessing directories

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?Farley

When I try to access the directory structure of my hard drives, I get a 10
or 15 second pause.

If I am in application and choose "save as" the screen pops right up but if
I click on the "save in" pull down, it freezes

If I open MS Explorer, select a hard drive and double click, there is a
pause.

It's like the PC is freezing up, the hard drive is not accessed

Any idea how to make it stop doing this?

I have:

Win 2000 5.00.2195
SP 4
Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz
1 gig mem
 
On a network?

In a command prompt, if you type

net use <enter>

Do you see any drive mappings pointing to unavailable resources?
 
The reason for this is because currently have a drive
mapped that's no longer avaliable. When you try opening My
Computer, Explorer, or the drop down menu in a Save As
window Windows trys to reconnect the drives for some
reason and when it gets to the bad connection it waits for
the timeout and them proceeds. Check your connections
after the Explorer or My Computer shows all your drives,
and click on each one until you get an error. Disconnect
that drive and POOF, you're problem has disappeared!
 
Yup, you got it right but the solution doesn't work because I have drives
mapped on my laptop for work that I can not access from home. Deleting them
means I need to remap each drive every morning I go to work.

There has to be a way to tell Win2000 to NOT wait for the network M drive
when I ask to see the C: drive

But how??
 
?Farley said:
Yup, you got it right but the solution doesn't work because I have
drives mapped on my laptop for work that I can not access from home.
Deleting them means I need to remap each drive every morning I go to
work.
Click to expand...

That's what login scripts are for. Are you on a domain? If not, just use a
batch file on your desktop to map the drives and run it manually.

net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no

etc.
There has to be a way to tell Win2000 to NOT wait for the network M
drive when I ask to see the C: drive
Click to expand...

It's always going to check to see if all the drives/shares are available.
But how??
Click to expand...

Like I said, don't use permanent drive mappings - use a login script on your
domain if you have a domain, or fake it with your own batch file if you
don't.
 
OK wench. That will work. I thought of that and have set it up seems a
bit clumsy. Do you know of a smoother more sophisticated way to manage my
net shares? possibly 3rd party program?

I'm still a bit amazed that there is no way to force Windows to stop waiting
10 seconds for drives that are not responding or to tell it to assume all
net drives mapped are available until I directly request access

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Farley


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
?Farley said:
OK wench. That will work. I thought of that and have set it up
seems a bit clumsy. Do you know of a smoother more sophisticated way
to manage my net shares? possibly 3rd party program?
Click to expand...

How clumsy is a simple batch file?

net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no
net use y: \\server\share /persistent:no
net use z: \\server\share /persistent:no

You can put it on your desktop & it shouldn't take more than a couple of
seconds to run....
I'm still a bit amazed that there is no way to force Windows to stop
waiting 10 seconds for drives that are not responding or to tell it
to assume all net drives mapped are available until I directly
request access

Any thoughts?
Click to expand...

Dunno - I don't use persistent mapped drives, ever. Sorry.
Regards,

Farley


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
That's what login scripts are for. Are you on a domain? If not, just
use a batch file on your desktop to map the drives and run it
manually.

net use x: \\server\share /persistent:no

etc.


It's always going to check to see if all the drives/shares are
available.

Like I said, don't use permanent drive mappings - use a login script
on your domain if you have a domain, or fake it with your own batch
file if you don't.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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