Hi Kerry,

The XP is on a new computer, not upgraded from 98. But the files they are
accessing are saved under 98 and office 97. Now they are opening them under
XP and Office 2003. But the files they are creating with the new software is
slow also. I can open the new files quickly on a 98 system.

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> David wrote:
> > We have computers running windows 98 and they open and save office
> > files (excel, word) fast. We just replaced some computers with
> > windows xp pro. They take up to a minute to open or save a file on
> > the network. I really need to speed this up. I don't know much
> > about this stuff, so if you can help, make it easy! Thanks!
>
> I have seen this problem with folders that have many thousands of files in
> them. XP checks all files in the current folder and all files one level down
> in the directory structure. This only seemd to affect some computers.
> Upgrading from an earlier version of Windows seemed to cause this. Doing a
> clean install of Windows fixed the problem. It's a drastic action so you may
> want to wait and see if you get any other answers first. If the folders do
> have a very large number of files I used a temporary workaround of changing
> the directory structure so that the users were only accessing one folder
> with a smaller number of files. To get to older files they had to move up
> the directory tree rather than down.
>
> Kerry
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