Joe4
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My home hard-drive recently crashed, so I got a new hard-drive and re-installed all my programs on it. I have Windows XP Home Edition (with the Professional Upgrade to get Access and VBA Capabilities).
Anyway, after re-loading everything, we searched for and ran all updates, ran a de-frag, and even ran a "Detect and Repair" from inside Excel.
However, I am having an odd problem. When I first browse to open/save a file in Excel, Access, Word, or Windows Explorer, the system is very slow to respond. It defaults to My Documents, when I click on My Computer it takes a few minutes to list my drives. If I click a second time, I get a "Not Responding" error message.
Has anyone had problems like these? Any idea on how to fix it?
Might the following items be involved?
1. Firewall
2. I have mapped a bunch of work drives that are not active until I login in with a VPN account (though these are not the drives I am trying to reference)
Thanks.
Anyway, after re-loading everything, we searched for and ran all updates, ran a de-frag, and even ran a "Detect and Repair" from inside Excel.
However, I am having an odd problem. When I first browse to open/save a file in Excel, Access, Word, or Windows Explorer, the system is very slow to respond. It defaults to My Documents, when I click on My Computer it takes a few minutes to list my drives. If I click a second time, I get a "Not Responding" error message.
Has anyone had problems like these? Any idea on how to fix it?
Might the following items be involved?
1. Firewall
2. I have mapped a bunch of work drives that are not active until I login in with a VPN account (though these are not the drives I am trying to reference)
Thanks.