That sure looked like it was IT, Eric.

Alas, when I did the delete, no change at all. Even re-booted, just to 'help' it be good.

But it sure does look like it's related to the MAPped drives, because It got unacceptably long after I added the second one, very recently. And I KNOW that both will actually timeout because I have neither connected most of the time.

Got any other gems like that?

Thanks

>Have a look at http://cyberwizardpit.net/article2.htm
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>>Interesting you should ask... I have 2, both to remote systems far away. And the time has become extended since I added the second one, which will never be there unless I have it's special connection program (for VPN) running.
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>>Hopefully you know some way to 'fix' this short of dropping the mappings ? < s >
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>>Thanks
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>>>Do you have many mapped drives?
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>>>>Word 2003, and I mean SLOW!
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>>>>It's more than 30 seconds, even going from dir-to-dir!@
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>>>>It's the same with or without A/V software running!@#@$!#@
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>>>>Latest SP downloaded, to no avail@#!$@#!$
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>>>>Anyone know of a fix for this?
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>>>>Any help appreciated.
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>>>>Jim