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Office 97 slow opening files
Name: cwmtwrch Date: March 11, 2003 at 06:28:58 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: Pentium 384
Comment:
Office 97 / Windows XP. Each and every time that I choose [File] [Open], it takes 25 seconds to display the content of the data folder on the local drive. We have 3 Pentium IV's, XP Home, 128 to 384Mb RAM. These are networked (TCP, NetBeui, IPX. But even displaying the content of the local drive data folder takes ages.a
Name: gregoryglen Date: March 11, 2003 at 07:21:05 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure that there are no invalid drive mappings (Drives that are mapped to nonexistent servers) Do you actually need IPX? If not disable or remove this protocol. We had a similar issue with IPX (Novell Servers) and office 97 under NT4.
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