Ciaran Costelloe wrote:
>
> Sometimes, after an apparently unrelated change, Windows XP goes into
> a networking slow-mode, at least until it is rebooted, and I finally
> found a repeatable case of this happening. I noticed it happening at
> other times, but never knew if it was me messing up something.
> Anyway, I replaced a printer on an IP print box. On each of five
> PCs, deleting the original printer and adding the new printer (and
> both were on the same port of the same print box) caused all network
> operations to be about 10 times slower, such as copying a file across
> the network: it was not an issue of just a slowness in the connection
> being set up (such as you would get with a DNS timeout) but the
> data-copying time was also very slow. Very weird.
>
> Ciaran
yeah, Windows XP can *really* be very weird. Just this morning I needed
to copy some files from one computer to a shared folder in another.
After doing it once or twice I went to get something to drink and when
I returned all shared folders for both computers were not available
anymore (from the other computer's point of view). Still, they all
exist and still are shared. Rebooting did not help.
Creepy :)
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Guillem Vicens Meier
Dep. Informatica Green Service S.A.
www.clubgreenoasis.com
