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. -- From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey" Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11