[softwarelist] Re: "Save As" button in OPW 2.92 (17 August 06)

On 28 Oct, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

> What can happen with Windows is that it has a list of visited folders 
> and some of those no longer exist (e.g. on a network) there is then a 
> long delay whilst it attempts to look at them.

What *does* happen with Windows (unless you tweak certain bits of the
registry) is that it checks all known drives are actually
present/accessible before accessing the one you told it to use (which might
actually be the local (C:)

This becomes a bigger problem when you have networked machines and one
presenting a shared folder/drive is either not present or slow responding.

For people with just single (standalone) machines the quickest way to slow
them down is to plug in a USB memory stick that only works with USB1
speeds.

-- 

Steve Pampling

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