Guest tom c Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Am running a Lenovo Z61t laptop wtih XP pro+SP2 all drivers/bios up to date Have run Norton antivir, spysweeper .. scandisk .. defrag etc etc There are three behaviours that seem to be connected ... but not sure. 1 Sometimes .. for no reason i can figure, i can not open "My Network Places" .. I click on it and i get an hour glass for 15 seconds, then nothing .. no window opens. If i logoff/logon the first time i click, it opens fine ... after i close, it will not open again. After a day or so, or maybe hours and a shutdown ... it will repair itself. and i may be fine for a few days ..... i just can not figure out how to force ti to be fine ... 2 Same timing as #1 ... My Computer takes 15 to 30 seconds to open ... at times, a few minutes ... but lately, a few seconds. 3 again same timing ... i have a DIR shared on a local drive and then mapped to my R:\ drive. usually when i double click R:\ the DIR opens fine .... but then again for no appraent reason, i get an error that the share can not be found .. My main questsion is #1 ... i mention the other issues incase they shed light on #1. i have used registry cleaners (norton, Advanced Windows Care) ...with no clear effect. I have 2GB ram and plenty of virtual memory ... i get there feeling there is a buffer size seomwhere set too small ... but i am totally guessing ... and i am totally frustrated ... i would greatly appreciate any suggestions ... my email is tcoates@chla.usc.edu thanks ....tom
Guest Kelly Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Network Places wont open Hi Tom, See if this helps: Go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services Right-click on Windows Image Aquisition and select properties Change the startup type to disabled, reboot. -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm "tom c" <tomc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5296E55D-4D09-4BB9-B4AA-2A222C4BAA33@microsoft.com... > Am running a Lenovo Z61t laptop wtih XP pro+SP2 all drivers/bios up to > date > Have run Norton antivir, spysweeper .. scandisk .. defrag etc etc > > There are three behaviours that seem to be connected ... but not sure. > > 1 Sometimes .. for no reason i can figure, i can not open "My Network > Places" .. I click on it and i get an hour glass for 15 seconds, then > nothing .. no window opens. If i logoff/logon the first time i click, it > opens fine ... after i close, it will not open again. After a day or so, > or > maybe hours and a shutdown ... it will repair itself. and i may be fine > for > a few days ..... i just can not figure out how to force ti to be fine ... > > 2 Same timing as #1 ... My Computer takes 15 to 30 seconds to open ... at > times, a few minutes ... but lately, a few seconds. > > 3 again same timing ... i have a DIR shared on a local drive and then > mapped to my R:\ drive. usually when i double click R:\ the DIR opens > fine > ... but then again for no appraent reason, i get an error that the share > can > not be found .. > > My main questsion is #1 ... i mention the other issues incase they shed > light on #1. i have used registry cleaners (norton, Advanced Windows > Care) > ..with no clear effect. > > I have 2GB ram and plenty of virtual memory ... i get there feeling there > is > a buffer size seomwhere set too small ... but i am totally guessing ... > and i > am totally frustrated ... i would greatly appreciate any suggestions ... > > my email is tcoates@chla.usc.edu > > thanks ....tom
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