Open File dialog extremely slow in vs2k5

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JeremyGrand - 28 Dec 2005 20:04 GMT

It takes 30 seconds or more to populate the dropdown list in the open file
dialog. This makes navigation to distant directories more than painful. It
is absolutely unacceptable. Anyone found a work around?

XP pro, latest sp, 768mb.

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Mikhail Arkhipov (Microsoft) - 29 Dec 2005 04:02 GMT

On 12/28/05 12:04, in article #XwBhn#CGHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,

> It takes 30 seconds or more to populate the dropdown list in the open file
> dialog. This makes navigation to distant directories more than painful. It
> is absolutely unacceptable. Anyone found a work around?
>
> XP pro, latest sp, 768mb.

Look in Windows Explorer and see if you have stale network connections of
drive mappings that went offline. Open File dialog is pretty much the
standard OS Open File so it might be checking which drives are available.

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Mikhail Arkhipov (Microsoft)
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JeremyGrand - 30 Dec 2005 01:47 GMT

Mikhail, I do have stale drive mappings, but in most cases explorer works
reasonably fast anyway. It is extremely slow in certain circumstances
only -- .Net, ms access are where I've most recently seen this. What is it
that is different about calls to explorer in these cases?

Jeremy

> On 12/28/05 12:04, in article #XwBhn#CGHA.3984@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
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> Mikhail Arkhipov (Microsoft)
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Erick Sasse - 30 Dec 2005 21:37 GMT

> Open File dialog is pretty much the
> standard OS Open File so it might be checking which drives are
> available.

I have the same problem here, and it happens *only* in VS, so I think
the VS open dialog do something else.

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Erick Sasse
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Christoph Nahr - 29 Dec 2005 09:59 GMT

Are you using the Perforce source control system? If so, do you have
the Perforce extension for Windows Explorer installed?

If so, try uninstalling it. I've experienced the same extreme
slowdowns in all file dialog boxes and couldn't figure out why --
until I decided on a whim to uninstall that particular Perforce
feature. Turned out this was the culprit...

>It takes 30 seconds or more to populate the dropdown list in the open file
>dialog. This makes navigation to distant directories more than painful. It
>is absolutely unacceptable. Anyone found a work around?
>
>XP pro, latest sp, 768mb.

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