long wait for Open file dialog to populate.....

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I have XP Pro on a 1.3 gHz withs 512 MB ram and
a 70gb hard drive. Connected to a Novell Network via Novell client v4.90
with 12 drive mappings.
I have MSFT Indexing Service installed and started automatically.

When I go to open a file, say in Word or Excel, when I have the 'Open' file
dialog open and click on the
drop down next to 'Look in' for a listing of my mappings, it takes 45
seconds to 1 minute for it to populate.

Are there any settings that I can adjust or some tweaking to speed up this
process. It is very aggravating
since I open and close a lot of files on a daily basis.

Marc Miller
App. Dev.
Commonwelath Telephone Enterprises
Wilkes Barre, Pa.
 
It's MS and Novell trying to play nice together, not bad for 12 mapped
drives...are you on a 10base network?
 
Randy,

Oh, how I love it how MS and Novell, MS and Oracle, MS and anyone work
together! Yes, our workstations
are 10baseT to a T1 network (we're a telephone company).

I have already tried a couple of older Novell clients to no avail.
Everything works fine on my other 2 machines which
are Win 2000 Pro and Win 2000 Server.

Don't see any SP's for the Novell 4.9 client either.

Marc
 
Randy,

Oh, how I know how MS and others play. I have tried different Novell
clients on XP and get the same results.
Also, I don't see any SPs for Novell Client 4.90. However, I don't have
this problem on my Win 2000 Pro and
Win 2000 Server machines. We are running 10baseT to a T1 Network (we're a
TELECOM/ISP).

Marc
 
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