Small issue in windows explorer

[rfeenie]

Hi there

Running Windows 2000 Pro on a Compaq Deskpro ( only 300Mb left free on c: drive). Problem is when going into Explorer it does not list the expanded contents of My Computer, i.e. all the local and network drives. I can press the '+' next to My Computer and after a while it will list the drives.
How do I get win2000 to list the expanded contents of My computer?
Granted there are a few network drives so maybe this relates to the time delay.

Thanks in advance

Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

 

[Jocsta]

The network drives will slow it down a little, but not much. If it is excessive, try unmapping them, and re mapping.
Also look out for programs which add context sensitive (right click) menu options. I had a problem in the past with a copy of winzip which I installed over a network. If the machine I installed it from wasn't present on the network, explorer took about 30 seconds to open up... just an idea.

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[swertel]

The delay after hitting the + is due to your mapped drives. I had a significant delay because I had created shortcuts to file/folders on mapped and shared drives. Resolving the shortcuts took a long time. I deleted those and, although inconvenient, found the computer in &quot;My network places&quot; instead. For as many times as I actually used those network locations, the time savings for opening Explorer is worth the hassle.

To get the &quot;My computer&quot; to expand automatically, change the target line in your Explorer shortcut to this
%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe C:\,/e

--Scott

 

[Jocsta]

Further to Scott's suggestion about browsing network places, when you have browsed to a location, you can add it to your favourites list and access it from the favourites menu. This obviously wont help you if something needs to be mapped to a drive, but if you are only using mapped drives to quickly locate resources on a network it's a viable solution.
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