[softwarelist] Re: "Save As" button in OPW 2.92 (17 August 06)
From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:05:28 +0000 (GMT)
In article <45470282.50103@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Andy.Ling@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> In message <4542861C.1080604@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall
> >>> <C.Bonsall@xxxxxxxx> writes
> >>>> After a scan ... 45 seconds to Save Frame As Now, I notice I get the
> >>>> a similarly slow Save As response from
> > MSWORD.
> >
> > If you are using Windows XP then if the 'My Network Places' folder
> > contains a shortcut to a network share, then each refresh of the
> > explorer window will attempt to read icon information from every file
> > in the remote location, causing the system to slow to a crawl,
> > particularly if the network drive is no longer available.
> >
> > Removing all shortcuts from 'My Network Places' will return the system
> > response to normal.
> In my case, I don't see any shortcuts in My Network Places. If what you
> describe IS the cause of the slow save response, if I were to
> (temporarily) disable the network connection, should I see the problem
> "go away"?
I think that all the icons seen in 'My network places' count as shortcuts.
Removing these, on my old machine (now non-networked) has enormously
speeded up the response of a machine I gave my daughter.
Thanks, Andy, for the tip.
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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"
Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11
