[mso] Re: XP lockup
- From: TomD <tdemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 08:53:58 -0700
THANKS! That was the problem. He had a mapped drive that was not connected. I
unmapped that drive and everything worked fine. It's really odd that he didn't
have this problem in Office 2k but it rears it's head in XP.
Greg Chapman wrote:
> I take it the gentleman is on the network? I suspect that his real
> problem stems from 2 related things. First, how many network drives does
> he have mapped? If there are a lot of them, there's your reason. Second
> and worse, if he has created several in the past with "reconnect on
> startup" selected, there'll be quite a few of them showing red Xes. That
> won't keep Word from forcing the system to enumerate those mappings,
> though, and they'll cause long pauses. The cure in both cases is to
> right click each unnecessary mapping and choose "Disconnect" from the
> menu.
>
> It may not be THE answer but it's a common problem in networked
> environments so I suggest it as a prime place to look!
>
--
Tom Demma KD7MSM
Support Systems Analyst &
Systems Administrator
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
University of Arizona
(520)621-6578 (520)621-2550 fax
tdemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
tdemma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"The speed of a computer is inversely proportional to the patience of the user"
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