Word slow opening group templates

[Polymath]

NT4sp6a Servers running WINS. XPsp1 clients running Office 2Ksp3.
Running on 100 LAN. All have 512MB RAM.

The workgroup templates folder lives on a network drive mapped to
S:\Templates

When I click on the New icon or File/New it can take up to 25 seconds
for the dialog that displays templates to open.

On a similar machine (identical hardware) running W2KproSp3 and Office
97, opening the same folder takes 4 seconds.

This template folder has 11 subfolders and 65 files, a combination of
..dot and .xlt files. None of the files are overly large for templates.
Most are quite small. There are a couple of .doc and .xls files in
there also.

On either the XP or W2K machines, opening the folder from Explorer
takes 3 seconds. So it doesn't seem to be a network connectivity
issue.

I really don't understand why the XP box Word is taking so long to
open the folder. It is similarly slow on my XP with Office 2003 on it.
Any Ideas???

 

[Guest]

just recently had this problem myself with a customer who has updated from
office97 to officexp.

if you have too many templates in the root folder of (S:\Templates) that's
what's causing your problems. try to reduce the amount of folders you have
too.

all the best.

Chris.