Work upgraded PC from NT to XP - Settings.

Lead_Head · 29 May 2007 at 10:27

Hello all,

I'm having a few niggles with my new work PC.

On NT when I copied and pasted a file from one folder to another or dragged and dropped an attachment from an email it simply put a 1 (2, 3, 4 etc) at the end of the file if it already existed. However in XP you can only overwrite. Is there a setting I can change so it will work in the same way as NT used to do? It's taking a lot longer to perform a task that I used to do in seconds with NT.

Also, when I'm executing a program, I go off and perform other tasks, when the program returns, it pops up to become the front screen, interrupting whatever I was doing in the meantime. Is there a way to prevent this?

I may find other problems as my day goes on, but overall I'm not too sure if XP is the better working environment to NT.

Cheers for any help..

Lead_Head · 29 May 2007 at 10:31

Sorry, another issue I've come across that I forgot to mention above.

I've got numerous drives mapped to this PC, some located in this office, but others located in other offices around the UK.

When I open a session of windows explorer I think it refreshes the drives in the background, slowing down the PC and opening of the windows explorer window. Is this what XP does? If so, can I stop it from doing this?

Sone · 29 May 2007 at 10:59

not any help sorry, but i loved my NT4 machine it just seemed to work with no hasstles.

TheVoice · 29 May 2007 at 14:59

On XP there's an option within Folder Options (Control Panel or Tools>Folder Options from any explorer window) under the View tab called 'Automatically search for network folders and printers' - could be this option which is causing the slowdown.

Raumarik · 29 May 2007 at 16:00

We had a similar issue in the school when I removed the old server, any mapped drives or folders on the old server that hadn't been removed would slow down anyone opening up my computer, explorer or a save/open dialog box in an application (word/excel etc).

Go through your mapped drives and ensure you can connect to them, disconnect (right click/disconnect) or bin any that you can't.