I am running Windows XP Pro and am logging into a Netware network. Once XP loads, it is very slow to display the drives in Windows Explorer, it seems to be caching the drives, folders and files, because if you go out and come back into it, everything displays as normal - however log on as a different user or don't use that machine for a couple of days, open windows explorer or my computer and then eventually the drives are displayed after 30 seconds to a minute. Also, if I have a File - Open dialogue box in any Windows application and I want to choose a network drive, XP sits and waits and I usually get a "Not Responding" message in the title bar of the dialogue box, then eventually the drop-down list of drives will appear after about a minute. I have about 15 network drives mapped permanently, most other users have 5 or 6, but it happens logged in as them, all of these drives exist, if I log into a windows 2000 machine next to it, or even on my own machine which is dual boot Win2k, WinXP works fine. So far I have tried disabling netbios over tcp/ip, disabled, automatically search for network folders and printers, turned off Microsoft networking completely, so only have the novell client enabled, but to no avail
Any suggestions, as this is making XP pretty unusable !!
Thanks
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