Opening .doc .xls file from networked machine takes long time. why

[ShirishLele]

I have three machines with Windows XP - SP2 and Office XP - SP3 networked in
a workgroup. On one machine all word and excel files are stored. Opening &
saving any of the excel or word file from other machine takes very long time.
Also during that time both the machines hang. What could be wrong?

 

[YRAGDRAW]

this problem was caused by Win Sec Update
KB908531. I removed and the problem went away.
Go to Add/Remove Programs, check the box (at the top) for Show Updates, then
go to the Win Updates and remove KB908531.
Hope this helps.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Removing the update is not the permanent solution as Automatic Updates
will download and install it again. Have you tried the Registry hack?
This is how you do:

Option 1 - Modify the registry
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- (If you have multiple user accounts set up) Log onto the computer
using an
account with Administrator privileges

- Click the Start button, then click Run and type "regedit" at the
prompt,
without the quotes; this will start Registry Editor

- Locate the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell
Extensions\Cached key in Registry Editor

- Right click on the key and select New / DWORD Value

- Rename the resulting value "{A4DF5659-0801-4A60-9607-1C48695EFDA9}
{000214E6-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} 0x401", without the quotes

- Right click the value, select Modify, and type "1" into the Value Data
field

- Close Registry Editor