>Since fileopening seems to be even more of a showstopper in your case, you might check how much the virus scan / possible path arbitration (security/network availabiltity) is involved.
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>regards
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>thomas

Hmmm... virus scan and path arbitration.

I AM on a quite large network which uses McAfee Sonicwall. I'll look into those possible sources of slowdown.

Thanks for all the help. :-)

Peter