The existing windows server computer has been in my workplace for about 1-2 years. For the past few days, access has seemed particularly slow. Through a process of elimination, we've found that reading files from the server is fine, and writing small files is fine (anything under about 3KB or 4KB writes just like normal), but writing (saving) any larger files to the server causes jamming on my computer. For example, saving a 14KB word doc to the server causes Word to jam, but opening that same file from the server is not a problem. FTP'ing an 18KB HTML page down from the web server onto the local server causes my FTP software to jam, but uploading that same file from my local server isn't a problem. So far as I know there have been no changes made to the server or network configuration. I've restarted all coputers and routers. Unfortuantetly the guy int he office who setup the server is on holiday for another week. Can anyone help? luckypingudog at hotmail.com

when was the last time the server drive(s) were defragged? Golly gee wilerkers everyone! Learn to Internet Search

Not sure about that one - I'll try it out just in case. Another curiosity - the problem is worse when trying to use an application to write to the server (for example, saving a document within Word), compared to just dragging and dropping files in Windows Explorer (this is much quicker). luckypingudog at hotmail.com

possible sources are severely fragmented drives [defrag regularly] corrupt drive [run chkdsk /f and reboot] hard drive misconfiguration not enough RAM in the system too many disk accesses too busy cpu bad network configuration [try saving a word file at the server] failing nic card problem hardware in general corrupt OS Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

Thanks wanderer - I've passed on this list to a collegue who's more knowing than I am. Perhaps if we methodically try all it might help. Thanks greatly for your suggestions. luckypingudog at hotmail.com