Windows 2000 Pauses - Why - How to Remedy This Problem

I have Windows 2000 SP1

Windows 2000 pauses in two places a lot; once is after the network logon; i find that one cannot do anything (like open programs) for up to 30 secs after the GUI is displayed; the other common place is when one tries to do file access within in an application (File Open in Word, changing drives in File Explorer, etc); often Windows freezes for up to 30 seconds and then continues on; Can someone tell what is going on and how i can remedy this?

I do have Office 2000 installed and i wonder if there is some sort of FindFast running that is causing this; if this is the case, how do you disable it?

Thank you!

--llyal

Re-install software

Hmmmm, have you considered simply defragging your drive? One other thing you have to consider is harddrive speed and your cpu speed. DiskMan

Since u are on a network and the pauses happen when you connect or when you are looking at a directory structure it could be caused by windows looking for other computers on the network.

Network card drivers/better network card?????

Try turning autoplay back on if you turned it
off?

It pauses after you logon -- or seems to
because it displays the desktop before it's
loaded everything. It needs to load up the
system tray before you can do anything. Like
with mine here, the desktop is displayed,
then it loads AudioHq for the soundblaster,
shows the volume icon, loads powerstrip for
VESA support under w2k, connects to the
internet for me, and loads netscape and the
java console. You can minimize the time
required by removing any programs from the
startup folder, and set all the options for
your software to NOT LOAD ON STARTUP.

A better option would be, when everything has
loaded, never use shutdown again -- enable
Hibernate. By hibernating, the OS will save
everything in ram to a file on the hard
drive. Then the pc turns itself off. When
the pc is turned back on, w2k loads in about
30 seconds, and you're exactly where you left
it -- with the image back in ram.

As for the pause when opening a filebrowser
window, I haven't quite figured that out yet.
I'm sure it's some kind of disk management
feature -- it's definately not a LAN problem
because I disabled the LAN connection and the
slight pause still exists while it checks for
cd-roms in the drives.

I have just put together another computer with WinME and I have asked the same question on that system. It pauses for about 20 secs on boot up and everything is unresponsive. There are no answers so it's not just W2k.

I had a similar problem at work. I had about a 30 second to one minute delay when I tried to open files. i had a network drive mapped to a directory that no longer existed. Windows took its time looking for the directory before un-freezing itself.

I am having a very similar problem at work. We suspect Novell Client32 has something to do with the delay in opening files in Office 2000. If any one has any suggested patches, fixes, etc. please post. Thanks.

We are experiencing the same problem company wide. We are on a Windows 2000 network with 250 win2k clients. In the middle of working, the OS just pauses and then resumes 30 seconds later. Most often it happens when accessing something network related such as the internet. Does everyone else experiencing this problem use a Win2k server and domain?

Also, the file open problems that someone previously mentioned - do you have photoshop installed? Turn off the thumbnail view. This caused up problems whenever a directory with JPEGS was selected. another option is associating jpeg with another program.