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Old January 12th 18, 10:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
AIOE[_3_]
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Default Temporarily Disconnect Drives

Win XP and / or Win 7 and ...

Many times I will be away from home with a desktop or one of many
laptops and run into this.

Apps starting up will get bogged down trying to access disconnected
drives e.g. NAS pen, memory stick. Al assigned drive letters.

I have seen the network get bogged down because the app is flailing the
network trying to access a NAS. I have to disconnect it to stop it.

Is there a way to temporarily tell Win not to include those drive
letters in any search or whatever ?

Disconnecting them means have to go through the process of connecting
them as drive letters again.

is this just bad Windows code ? !
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Old January 12th 18, 10:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default Temporarily Disconnect Drives

On 12/01/2018 21:10, AIOE wrote:
Win XP and / or Win 7 and ...

Many times I will be away from home with a desktop or one of many
laptops and run into this.

Apps starting up will get bogged down trying to access disconnected
drives e.g. NAS pen, memory stick. Al assigned drive letters.

I have seen the network get bogged down because the app is flailing the
network trying to access a NAS. I have to disconnect it to stop it.

Is there a way to temporarily tell Win not to include those drive
letters in any search or whatever ?

Disconnecting them means have to go through the process of connecting
them as drive letters again.

is this just bad Windows code ? !


It has always been that way but does vary with the application. I get
around it by remembering to browse to a safe location (usually the C
drive) before removing a drive or closing a program.

Network drives are a bit different and you can find many tips by
searching for slow network browsing in XP. For example, if the 'My
Network Places' folder contains a shortcut to a network share, then each
opening or refresh of the explorer window will attempt to read icon
information from every file in the remote location, causing the system
to slow to a crawl. Removing all shortcuts from 'My Network Places' will
return the system response to normal.

 




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