Slowness in accessing disk/files

Question

Hi all!

I have been using the notebook Latitude D600 since 1 month. The config: Pentium M 1.3GHz/512MB RAM/30 GB/Windows 2000 Pro/McAfee/MS Office XP/Visual Studio/Lotus Notes

Starting from the 2nd week, I noticed a very annoying problem: everytime I try to access the disk (for file opening/saving/browsing) from an application (e.g. MS Word or Excel or Lotus Notes), the application will freeze for 30~50s before it becomes OK to access the disk. Only this application will freeze, others are OK. The next disk access is OK without problem. But if I exit the application, then restart it again, the problem is back. --> the freeze is only during the 1st disk access after starting the application.

This is becoming very annoying, as it happens to pratically all applications: 30~50s freeze for 1st disk access from any applications... ????

Any idea about what's happenning here? Any workaround?

Thanks for all inputs,

Dion

jwatt · Answer

One possibility is that a network share that your machine was using is no longer available, and it's taking a while to determine that. Things that take a very long time are often network related.

The most straightforward way to identify unavailable network shares is via "net use", in a command window.

Here's a "live" example:

c:\download>net use
New connections will not be remembered.




Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disconnected           \\lucyfur\tmp             Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.




c:\download>net use \\lucyfur\tmp /delete
\\lucyfur\tmp was deleted successfully.



c:\download>net use
New connections will not be remembered.

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Jim

Dionz · Answer

Bingo!! Thanks a lot Jim!  That was the problem. I disconnected all my unavailable network connections, and it is very much OK now. Thanks again, Dion

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Slowness in accessing disk/files

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