word, excel and front page locks when changing direcories

[RandyLVC]

Ok this one is driving me crazy..



I have seen this on my own office system and now I have at least 2 clients
calling me with the same problem... I can't seen to find an answer anyplace
so here I am...





I will start with Front page 2003 as thats what I have on my system and I
can walk throughthe problem.



I open front page and it loads the last website that i have worked on,
(thats normal) but when i close that website and I use the drop down menu
with the little down arrow to try to move to the directory with my other
websites Front page LOCKS ..



I noticed this shortly after I upgraded my other office stuff to 2007 and I
just guessed that it was a 2007 bug that i had not read about yet...



However it is also doing the same in word and excel when i do this in
these 2 I get a Initelzing the root folder display and thats where it
freezes... again I thought ok an office 2007 bug



last night I got a call from 2 differant clients who are having the same
problem. only they are using office 2003 and have never had 2007 installed
at all..



I am guessing at this point that it's a crit update patch that caused this
but both clients have had this problem for weeks so i have no clue where to
look. has anyone had this problem before? anyone find a fix?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Windows XP, right-click on the My Computer icon on the Windows
desktop or in the Start menu, left-click on Disconnect Network Drive,
and disconnect any mapped drives that are not currently available.

 

[RandyLVC]

100% did the trick! Thanks again!

In Windows XP, right-click on the My Computer icon on the Windows
desktop or in the Start menu, left-click on Disconnect Network Drive,
and disconnect any mapped drives that are not currently available.