Guest Tester Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Hi there, Is there a possible slowdown of an XP Pro machine by adding shortcuts to folders and adding shares of recently opened documents to My Network Places? If yes, then it is applicable for shortcuts to folders/ shares for both LAN reachable servers [100 Mbps] or only WAN servers through speeds less then 10 Mbps? Should I set up mapped drives instead? Thank you, T
Guest John7 Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 Re: XP shortcuts to folders and shares to My Network Places Hi, When connecting through 10Mbps connections you always have slower file access. When using uncached shares through 10 Mbps connections, access get even worse as Windows also collect data about connected drives. It is better to enables caching or Offline Files. When accessing remote files on a servers that shut down drives to save power (rare), you will have to wait for disk spin up (+5 ... 10 sec.). HTH, John7 "Tester" <calinguga@netscape.net> schreef in bericht news:ca67569f-42f3-4101-801c-00e0f782df0b@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi there, > Is there a possible slowdown of an XP Pro machine by adding shortcuts > to folders and adding shares of recently opened documents to My > Network Places? If yes, then it is applicable for shortcuts to folders/ > shares for both LAN reachable servers [100 Mbps] or only WAN servers > through speeds less then 10 Mbps? > Should I set up mapped drives instead? Thank you, T
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