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.XLS Files open extremely slow from network drives.
Hello, While openen .XLS (excel 97 - 2003) files from a network drive (DFS), it takes quite a while to open these files (30 seconds or more). These delays only occur under certain circumstances: ...
Erik_Plekenpol what does work is: in GPO, i shared the network drives with ip address: like \\192.168.1.3\finance. Instead, use the server name \\servername\finance . This also is for mapping network folders. Use the server name and not ip address of the server. Tried all other tricks, but that didn’t work. This works perfectly and excel files on network drives now open in a blink of an eye.
- Thank you! That worked for us, changing all paths with the hostname instead of the IP address, and now the files open instantanely. Also mapping the path as network drives solves the problem.
