Long wait for SAVE dialog, windows

[Jed_Davidow]

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battler. wrote:

We have lots of ppl at work complaining about performance of apps and PCs when it's really just the network.

Have a word with your IT people. Otherwise;

Solution = Do your development offline (disconnected from the network).

Message Edited by battler. on 04-30-2010 03:47 AM

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Not really a solution since a) It's just me (no IT people) and b) 80% of what I do relies on the network.  But thank you for the suggestion!

[Jed_Davidow]

I thought that maybe the problem was that (maybe) the last file I opened was on a network drive, and it was accessing/searching for that location as a default when I opened the dialog.  But that's not the case(opened a local location file to clear that).

I will try disabling services (I know what most of them are).  May take me a couple days to get to it though.

[smercurio_fc]

I would also suggest clearing out your "recent documents" list.

[Jed_Davidow]

Thanks for the suggestion.  Cleaning out RD did not help.

[Jed_Davidow · Accepted solution]

FINALLY Figured it out.

On this particular system, I had configured the "Common Open File Dialog" to have custom items displayed in the Places Bar.

(Here's one link to tell you how to do it)

I had entered a network drive on a server that I shut down a few weeks ago (but I used the URL and not the drive letter, for some reason). 

Once I shut down that server, any dialog box with the Places Bar in it tool a LONG time to load, as it searched for that URL.

I replaced the URL with an entry to my [profile]\Links folder, and put a shortcut to the new network location in there.

The interesting thing is that I thought LV was the problem since it was the only program affected- that's not true.  The thing that threw me was that some programs use that dialog and some don't.  IE does not, firefox does, notepad does not, office does not, etc.

Anyway, I appreciate all your help.  I had forgotten I had made that customization, and now I know better than to use network URLs in my links!