My Network Places in XP Freeze and Empty - Solved
November 22, 2010
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One day me and my co-IT personnel encounter a little problem
with one of our PC in the office. Seems all things are fine but when you open
the My Network Places it would freeze for so long and became empty or blank.
You can’t open the workgroup or the Shared file links while it is freezing, so
bad.
When we click on the Workgoup a network error message will pop up as shown:
There were no problems with cables because it shows 100
percent connection to LAN and Firewall was disabled. I was confused also
because I can’t find solution in the Internet but luckily we have solved it by an
experiment.
To solve this problem do the following tips:
1.Check the LAN cable. Your LAN cable must be
attached properly from your computer to switch or router. Bad cables due to
wrong splicing, crimping, cuts or destroyed by pest can cause connection problem
and slow network performance.
2.Check your Firewall. You can disable your
windows Firewall for the main time to see if it cause you’re my Network places
slowness or freezing. Also check your Antivirus firewall settings if it block
network activity.
3.Check the Network Configuration.Check your IP address and workgroup name, network configuration error is the most common reason why your network freeze or fail.
4.Delete all Shared Folder Links.Lastly, this solves our problem with Network
Places :
Open the Network Places, wait until it will
open. In our case it takes 20-25 minutes before we see the Network Places area.
Then, this is it DELETE ALL SHARED FILE LINKS! Next, close the window and open
the My Network Places.
5.It works right? Congrats. This solution works on
our situation.
*** If you have questions please feel free to comment or
suggest. Thank you***