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I finally decided to use XP on our network figuring "it's time" to start
moving away from Windows 2000. We have about 30 computers with Windows 2000
and to this date, they all work flawlessly.
This is a new computer, Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz, 512MB ram, GIG card, 128MB
video... etc.
Everything seems to work fine locally, and items such as Internet, email,
downloads etc seems to be proportionally fast as the computer is configured.
(meaning it seems as if the NIC is OK)
HOWEVER, when I access folders across our local network, it seems to take
extra long (like 10-15 seconds) to show the files within the folders, and
even after they file icons show up, Windows Explorer sometimes will freeze
for about 10 seconds as well. Even some of our old Pentium II 450MHZ
computers (yes we still have a few of those), will regenerate the files over
the network almost instantly.
I've tried the following:
Turned Firewall off
Set everything to Windows Classic
Change the Display settings for better performance instead of better visual.
Set Static IP and DNS (after trying our standard DHCP)
I have all the windows updates installed and defragmented the Hard Disk a
few times already.
Nothing seems to help improve the situation, and I've been working on this
thing for two days now. (I even rebuilt the computer from scratch in the
hopes of solving the problem)
Please help. I'd really like to move towards XP on our network, but problems
likes this are unacceptable in our environment.
Thanks,
Sam
I finally decided to use XP on our network figuring "it's time" to start
moving away from Windows 2000. We have about 30 computers with Windows 2000
and to this date, they all work flawlessly.
This is a new computer, Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz, 512MB ram, GIG card, 128MB
video... etc.
Everything seems to work fine locally, and items such as Internet, email,
downloads etc seems to be proportionally fast as the computer is configured.
(meaning it seems as if the NIC is OK)
HOWEVER, when I access folders across our local network, it seems to take
extra long (like 10-15 seconds) to show the files within the folders, and
even after they file icons show up, Windows Explorer sometimes will freeze
for about 10 seconds as well. Even some of our old Pentium II 450MHZ
computers (yes we still have a few of those), will regenerate the files over
the network almost instantly.
I've tried the following:
Turned Firewall off
Set everything to Windows Classic
Change the Display settings for better performance instead of better visual.
Set Static IP and DNS (after trying our standard DHCP)
I have all the windows updates installed and defragmented the Hard Disk a
few times already.
Nothing seems to help improve the situation, and I've been working on this
thing for two days now. (I even rebuilt the computer from scratch in the
hopes of solving the problem)
Please help. I'd really like to move towards XP on our network, but problems
likes this are unacceptable in our environment.
Thanks,
Sam