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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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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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