Slow switching between folders within XP dialog boxes??

[Olimits7]

Hello,

Everytime I'm within any type of dialog box in Windows XP, it takes such a long time to switch between either local folders on my hard drive or mapped network drives.

Some of the dialog boxes that this happens to me on are the "Insert File", "Open", "Save", etc... dialog boxes. And some applications that I have experienced this on are Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PeopleSoft, etc....pretty much any application that uses those XP dialog boxes.

At first I thought it was due to the mapped network drives I have, but I did a test with a file on my local hard drive and it was still very slow. Under a dialog box, I tried going into MyComputer>C:>Documents and Settings/ and it was taking a while to switch into each folder. But I still think it could be something due to the networked drive, but I'm not 100% sure.

However, if I just go directly to My Computer and go to any drives or networked drives it switches folders very quickly and I don't experience any slowness.

Thank you,

olimits7

 

[linney]

Is it a similar problem as to what is mentioned here?

You may experience problems in Windows Explorer or in the Windows shell after you install security update MS06-015

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918165#appliesto

When did this start happening to you? Can you tie it down to some changes made to the system?

What happens if you temporarily remove the physical connection to the Network?

 

[Olimits7]

Thanks for your reply.

It ended up being due to one of my mapped drives wasn't connecting properly, and this was causing the slowness.

Thanks, again.

olimits7