Explorer responds lsowly when connected to network

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Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

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Ramesh Srinivasan
MS-MVP, Windows Shell

Windows XP Troubleshooting
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"1" <2> wrote in message newsJkZ9M%23aFHA.2420@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
>
> My office system - Win XP SP2 ; 1.GHz 512MB RAM - is connected to LAN.
>
> Whenever I right-click on a file, or double-click to open it, the response
> time is *very* slow : takes almost 40 - 80 seconds.
>
> I noticed that this happens only when I'm connected to the network.
>
> I have tried virus scans, defragmenting, resizing page size, cleaning up
> the hard-disk, but no improvement.
>
> That's when I figured out the network criterion.
>
>
> Thing is, my colleague's computer, with the same configuration work
> perfectly fine, when connected to the same network.
>
> I'm flummoxed!
>
> Please help!
>