Delay on all files & shortcuts in C:\Documents and Settings
Anything within C:\Documents and Settings (Start Menu, Desktop, etc.) cannot be deleted or right-clicked on without a long delay (about 15 seconds) on this one Workstation. Running Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 on 1.8Ghz PC - have quite a few like this without this problem. Tried updating one from SP2 to SP4 before writing this - it didn't have the problem.
It doesn't matter which profile (subfolder) I choose, nor does it matter whether I am accessing from Windows Explorer, the Desktop or Start Button.
However, icons programmatically applied to the Desktop (My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Microsoft Outlook, Recycle Bin, etc.) do not have this problem.
Ctrl-dragging to copy an icon works at normal rapid speed, but still neither the new nor the old icon responds normally to deletion. The exception is if one of the Icons mentioned above (Recycle Bin, My Computer, etc) is copied, its shortcut will also respond at normal rapid speed.
Opening shortcuts to executables works at normal speed, such as from the Start Menu.
It doesn't matter which profile (subfolder) I choose, nor does it matter whether I am accessing from Windows Explorer, the Desktop or Start Button.
However, icons programmatically applied to the Desktop (My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Microsoft Outlook, Recycle Bin, etc.) do not have this problem.
Ctrl-dragging to copy an icon works at normal rapid speed, but still neither the new nor the old icon responds normally to deletion. The exception is if one of the Icons mentioned above (Recycle Bin, My Computer, etc) is copied, its shortcut will also respond at normal rapid speed.
Opening shortcuts to executables works at normal speed, such as from the Start Menu.
I've noticed similar problems in the past, where I had many network drives mapped. In Windows 2000, Windows can go into an "idle" mode when connected to shares, and sometimes opening up My Computer can be rather slow.
Do you have many shares mapped?
Do you have many shares mapped?
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About a dozen
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Opening up My Computer, however, is blazingly fast, as always. Opening applications works fine and fast.
Perhaps those few folders are just on a bad area of the hard drive? What about running a full disk check, followed with a defrag?
One other little thing you could try:
By right-clicking the My Documents->Properties shortcut on the desktop, you can actually change the location of the My Documents folder. I'd be curious to see if that helped.
One other little thing you could try:
By right-clicking the My Documents->Properties shortcut on the desktop, you can actually change the location of the My Documents folder. I'd be curious to see if that helped.
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Tweak UI doesn't show My Documents on the Desktop tab - and it isn't on the desktop. Perhaps this is part of the problem. How would I add it back?
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I immediately noted that I had found it (Folder Options) and added it back with no change - but my post apparantly never made it. Tried several things without success.
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Thanks for all your posts. I have asked community support to decide how best to wrap up this question.
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A quick check confirms that this is true on Win2000 SP4 machines .. delay the first time after reboot you try an icon in the C:\Documents and Settings, but not on later times. Don't know why the one Workstation can't get out of that mode-like state <sigh> oh well. Went ahead and rebuilt it without incident - now it acts like all the others.
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Thanks, Lunchy.
I read your post. I am having the same problem. We upgraded about 250 machines, every one with SP4 has this problem.
Tried to Days to trouble shoot. No matter what you do, as soon as SP4 is applied to any 2000 machine, right click on desktop, or icons, there is a long delay.
If anyone knows of a SOLUTION to this problem I would leave to hear it. In the Meantime lets hope Microsoft fixes this in SP5.
Tried to Days to trouble shoot. No matter what you do, as soon as SP4 is applied to any 2000 machine, right click on desktop, or icons, there is a long delay.
If anyone knows of a SOLUTION to this problem I would leave to hear it. In the Meantime lets hope Microsoft fixes this in SP5.
Do all these machines also have Novell client installed?
Yes they all had Novell client loaded on them.
From my research it appears that Netware Client is trying to resolve the short-cut target's drive letter (usually "C") as a network name.
How do you resolve?
Try this patch on a machine. It's the only fix I've found advertised so far...
If you want to try the fix, import the .reg file below, or do it
manually as follows: Using regedt32, create a REG_MULTI_SZ value
called "BadServer" under the key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControl
The data is the letters A through Z, each on a separate line.
Note: The change does not take effect until you reboot.
======== start badserver.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
"BadServer"=hex(7):41,00,0
46,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,48
00,00,00,4d,00,00,00,4e,00
00,00,53,00,00,00,54,00,00
00,59,00,00,00,5a,00,00,00
======== end badserver.reg ==========
If you want to try the fix, import the .reg file below, or do it
manually as follows: Using regedt32, create a REG_MULTI_SZ value
called "BadServer" under the key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControl
The data is the letters A through Z, each on a separate line.
Note: The change does not take effect until you reboot.
======== start badserver.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM
"BadServer"=hex(7):41,00,0
46,00,00,00,47,00,00,00,48
00,00,00,4d,00,00,00,4e,00
00,00,53,00,00,00,54,00,00
00,59,00,00,00,5a,00,00,00
======== end badserver.reg ==========
I just applied this patch to my own workstation and didn't find any improvement.
However icons that I moved to the "All Users" desktop no longer "paused" when I right-clicked them.
However icons that I moved to the "All Users" desktop no longer "paused" when I right-clicked them.
Once icons are moved to "All Users" desktop they no longer cause a delay when context clicking (right clicking) then on the desktop.
But when you browse to their location in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop with Explorer and then right click on them you still get the delay.
This seems to be some form of a recursive directive problem.
But when you browse to their location in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop with Explorer and then right click on them you still get the delay.
This seems to be some form of a recursive directive problem.
I just found on my machine when I download ShellExView
(see http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/slowrightclick.htm)
and disable the entry for "Offline Files Menu"
(Client Side Caching UI - C:\WINNT\system32\cscui.dl
that the problem goes away!
(see http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/slowrightclick.htm)
and disable the entry for "Offline Files Menu"
(Client Side Caching UI - C:\WINNT\system32\cscui.dl
that the problem goes away!
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Here is the patch if you prefer it this way ...
======== start fix_context_click.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="Offline Files Menu"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@=""
"ThreadingModel"="Apartmen
"~~Disabled~~"="cscui.dll"
======== end fix_context_click.reg ==========
To reverse these changes run:
======== start undo_fix.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="Offline Files Menu"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="cscui.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartmen
======== end undo_fix.reg ==========
======== start fix_context_click.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="Offline Files Menu"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@=""
"ThreadingModel"="Apartmen
"~~Disabled~~"="cscui.dll"
======== end fix_context_click.reg ==========
To reverse these changes run:
======== start undo_fix.reg ==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="Offline Files Menu"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{
@="cscui.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartmen
======== end undo_fix.reg ==========
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