>One of my jobs is being an MIS. I have a CAD department to take care of. We have a drawing directory that has 25k + files in it.
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>I am trying to upgrade the workstations form windows 98 to XP.
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>windows 98 can open that directory in about 30 seconds. XP takes about 9 minutes. I have allowed indexing for that drive/folder.
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>I really hate to have to break that up into smaller directories, but it looks like my only solution. It's gonna require me some foxpro coding that is really not going to be very exciting. Anybody have any ideas out there.
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>Oh, I've also tweaked the MTU settings, no advantage.

Try tweaking the TcpAckFrequency as per http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=328890

I had a similar problem of XP workstations being slow to load the Open File dialog in Word in a folder on an NT4 server with a couple of thousand documents in it. W98 was basically instantaneous. I opened a $99 paid incident with MS; after some back and forth they suggested "try this", it worked great and MS even refunded my money. Gotta love that.