Explorer "not responding" over UNC shares

Hello,

I'm having an odd problem.

I'm running vista 64, Home Premium. I often run into a very strange
problem. When accessing shares on a XP machine on the same segment
(LAN), I can often access one file, but if I go back to explorer to open
another file, it shows "not responding" and becomes unresponsive.

The quick solution is to kill the process and just start another one,
but if I wait about 20 seconds it comes back to life and I can continue.

This only happens once, per process it seems. If I wait for the "not
responding" to go away it usually works fine for the rest of the
session. If I kill the process and start a new one, most likely it will
happen again, but not 100% of the time.

Firewalls and virus protection program were disabled for testing and
they do not seem to be the cause for the timeout.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Aram

"Aram Mirzadeh" <aram535@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an odd problem.
>
> I'm running vista 64, Home Premium. I often run into a very strange
> problem. When accessing shares on a XP machine on the same segment
> (LAN), I can often access one file, but if I go back to explorer to open
> another file, it shows "not responding" and becomes unresponsive.
>
> The quick solution is to kill the process and just start another one,
> but if I wait about 20 seconds it comes back to life and I can continue.
>
> This only happens once, per process it seems. If I wait for the "not
> responding" to go away it usually works fine for the rest of the
> session. If I kill the process and start a new one, most likely it will
> happen again, but not 100% of the time.
>
> Firewalls and virus protection program were disabled for testing and
> they do not seem to be the cause for the timeout.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Aram


Are you using wireless?

Is the XP machine a laptop?

Have you checked power settings for NIC under Device Manager?

Tae Song wrote:
> "Aram Mirzadeh" <aram535@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OMluD#RPKHA.3552@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having an odd problem.
>>
>> I'm running vista 64, Home Premium. I often run into a very strange
>> problem. When accessing shares on a XP machine on the same segment
>> (LAN), I can often access one file, but if I go back to explorer to open
>> another file, it shows "not responding" and becomes unresponsive.
>>
>> The quick solution is to kill the process and just start another one,
>> but if I wait about 20 seconds it comes back to life and I can continue.
>>
>> This only happens once, per process it seems. If I wait for the "not
>> responding" to go away it usually works fine for the rest of the
>> session. If I kill the process and start a new one, most likely it will
>> happen again, but not 100% of the time.
>>
>> Firewalls and virus protection program were disabled for testing and
>> they do not seem to be the cause for the timeout.
>>
>> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>>
>> Aram
>
>
> Are you using wireless?
>
> Is the XP machine a laptop?
>
> Have you checked power settings for NIC under Device Manager?

Both machines are wired, off of the same switch.

Both machines are desktops.

The only odd thing I see in the power settings was the "Allow the
computer to turn off this device to save power" however I have power
disabled in the control panel so it should never go off. I clicked it
off anyway.

I'll test and reply back.