Windows Explorer slow when not on office LAN

My laptop PC is a member of my office domain, with some drive mappings
pointing to the office server shares. When I work at home, any activity
involving the file system (using Explorer or OpenFile and SaveAs dialogues)
takes ages. Apparently it has something to do with the network settings,
because if I disable the home network connection, the problem is gone.

However, I need to be connected to the network at home. Is there a solution?

its trying to connect to those drive mappings at your
office, waiting for a response or a timeout, unmap the
drives when not at the office. there may be a better
solution such as disabling the mappings temporarily that i
am not aware of, i dont belive there is. thats my
thoughts, now im going to bed, its 7 am
>-----Original Message-----
>My laptop PC is a member of my office domain, with some
drive mappings
>pointing to the office server shares. When I work at
home, any activity
>involving the file system (using Explorer or OpenFile and
SaveAs dialogues)
>takes ages. Apparently it has something to do with the
network settings,
>because if I disable the home network connection, the
problem is gone.
>
>However, I need to be connected to the network at home.
Is there a solution?
>
>
>.
>

This is often because there are auto-created 'favorites' entries to
these missing mappings under "My Network Places". Delete those and
your problem might improve.

Otherwise, the suggestion to remove the drive mappings
themselves is your only choice. Ask your system administrator
if they can make "non-persistent" mappings to your network
drives in the login script so they don't exist when you aren't
on network. This is good practice anyway.

If not, you can make your own batch scripts to unmap and
map these drives using "net use" commands. Place them
on your desktop and do it by hand when needed.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

"DJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:ONVFAU$(E-Mail Removed)...
> My laptop PC is a member of my office domain, with some drive mappings
> pointing to the office server shares. When I work at home, any activity
> involving the file system (using Explorer or OpenFile and SaveAs dialogues)
> takes ages. Apparently it has something to do with the network settings,
> because if I disable the home network connection, the problem is gone.
>
> However, I need to be connected to the network at home. Is there a solution?
>
>

Thanks for your kind replies. The script with "net use" is a very good idea,
which I'll follow.

In the meantime I was trying some alternatives and I actually deleted the
mappings and re-positioned them in "My Network Places". That seems to have
eliminated the problem while I'm connected to my home network. Then I hooked
on (through VPN and my ADSL router) to my office network, and everything was
still fine - though browsing those new entries in "My Network Places" was a
bit slower than it was in their previous life. When I then, in continuation
to browsing the remote folders, opened the first folder on my C drive, the
slowness was back again for a short while, and then, from the second local
folder, everything was smooth as silk.


"Steve Duff [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:eZ2e%(E-Mail Removed)...
> This is often because there are auto-created 'favorites' entries to
> these missing mappings under "My Network Places". Delete those and
> your problem might improve.
>
> Otherwise, the suggestion to remove the drive mappings
> themselves is your only choice. Ask your system administrator
> if they can make "non-persistent" mappings to your network
> drives in the login script so they don't exist when you aren't
> on network. This is good practice anyway.
>
> If not, you can make your own batch scripts to unmap and
> map these drives using "net use" commands. Place them
> on your desktop and do it by hand when needed.
>
> Steve Duff, MCSE
> Ergodic Systems, Inc.
>
> "DJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ONVFAU$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My laptop PC is a member of my office domain, with some drive mappings
> > pointing to the office server shares. When I work at home, any activity
> > involving the file system (using Explorer or OpenFile and SaveAs
dialogues)
> > takes ages. Apparently it has something to do with the network settings,
> > because if I disable the home network connection, the problem is gone.
> >
> > However, I need to be connected to the network at home. Is there a
solution?
> >
> >
>
>