Slow Network Connection

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Charles Elliott wrote:

> I have two computers running WinXP; the others run Win2K. When I
> attempt to see the file system in Explorer of one of the WinXP
> machines by clicking on "Computers Near Me"/Computer Name, it takes
> about a minute for the list of
> logical hard disks to appear. This is true no matter which of the
> other
> computers this one is accessed from. No other computer behaves like
> this. When I click on another computer name in Explorer, the list of
> hard disks
> appears almost instantaneously. Moreover, only one installation of
> WinXP behaves like this -- the one with a clean install of WinXP; the
> WinXP installation that is an upgrade of Win2K displays its logical
> hard disks
> very quickly. Once the list of logical disks appears, clicking on one
> entry produces a list of the folders in the root directory almost
> instantaneously.
>

Are these computers in a Workgroup or Domain? If domain, what operating
system is the server running?

Malke
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