>I am looking at a setup which has 3 pcs running xp home across a network.
>The network is created via an adsl wired modem/router.
>1 of the pcs is used for the general file storage which are accessed from
>the other 2 pcs.
>One of these 2 pcs can access and open/close the files very quickly - ie
>opening either word or excel files without any difficulty.
>The other pc however will open the files but can take up to 5 minutes to
>open even the smallest file - the same applies when trying to save them over
>the network - very slow indeed.
>As far as I can tell the pcs are setup the same but I cannot work out why
>one of them is so slow at opening/saving files across the network.
>Any ideas would be appreciated.