This occurs when I access a folder that has not been access is a few days.  Once I accesss the folder for the 1st time then it is ok untill it sits idol for a day or two.  Must be a setting in XP that is set correctly.  Like I said windows NT never had this problem and still does not have this problem.
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Which client are you using?  Microsoft's or Novell's?  What version?  Are you running NetwareIP on your server or just IPX?\n\nDon't mean to be rude, but none of the other posters understand your environment.  One thing to definitely check is whether the client is trying to use TCP/IP.  If the server doesn't have IP, the client will time out and then try IPX.  You can unbind IP from the client by going to Network Connections.  Under Advanced/Advanced settings, uncheck the box next to "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" under the Netware client.  This will cause the client to only use IPX.
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This behavior may occur if one of the following conditions is true: \n• One or more of the random access memory (RAM) modules that are installed on your computer are faulty. \n• The RAM configuration is incompatible with Windows XP. \n\nMake sure your RAM is inserted properly and try restarting. If you recently put new ram in, that could be the probably or one of your sticks of ram have fried.
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you must have some kind of folder error on your computer,as ive had files of 25gb before,has this happened once or on every file\n  try check for errors on local disk option,and scan for bad sectors,you may need to re-boot for this\n  as normal..run a virus check and spyware check\nthis ones baffled me\n   watch this space
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If this issue has been occuring recently, just go to My Computer, select Tools>Folder Options>Select Restore Defaults.  I guess that helps.  If it doesn't, select the General Tab under Folder Options and select the option "Double-click to open an item" and select OK.
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try creating a new user with the name that has access to that folder. once done, log in using that user on your computer and try to access the file/folder.\n\nshouldnt be a problem.\n\npeace hun.
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Uninstall and reinstall your MS Office.\n\nIt looks like some files have gone corrupt.\n\nAlso check for updates and apply them every week, not just of XP but for MS Office as well.\n\nIf you didn't have the latest updates, this kind of thing could've happened, because they were addressing vulnerablities in MS Office.\n\nAll the best.
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you are probably running out of memory.  windows xp is a huge memory hog.  when a computer runs out of RAM it starts storing information on the hard drive in what's called virtual memory.  the hard drive is several orders of magnitude slower than regular RAM and it brings your computer to a grinding halt.  if you were running xp before without any problems, and after reinstall this is going on, you probably have some features turned on by default that were off before.  go through your system control panel and turn off all the whiz-bang graphical doodads and junk like that you don't need.
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My first answer is, reboot.  Sometimes that's enough to take care of those sorts of problems.  If that doesn't work, open "My Computer" and go to the folder where you've saved it.  Find "Folder Options" in the menus--if you're using Windows XP, go to Tools->View Folder Options.  Then click on the "View" tab.  From there, look through the options until you find "Show Hidden Files and Folders", or something similar.\n\nOnce you can see hidden files, have another look at that directory and see if you've got some hidden files there.  Nine chances out of ten you do.  Look for files that have a name very close to the name you saved the file as and that are hidden files.  Go ahead and delete those ones.  DON'T DELETE THE ORIGINAL, NON-HIDDEN FILE.  If you're not sure, make a copy of the folder before you try it.  Once you delete the hidden locking files, you should be good to go.
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Go to Map network drive in one of your folders. Try and force the mapping of your drives to a certain letter. Once it gets disconnected, it is not supposed to keep the drive hanging like that. It should've went back to B, then D, then E...etc.\n\nIf you cant get this resolved by forcing it, then you will need to do a scandisk and make sure you reset your drives. Or you can just reformat and next time make sure you use the NTFS partition.
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Go through your entire home folder and remove ALL the plists that have *anything* to do with word or office for that matter. Make sure you also remove the 'microsoft user data' or something along those lines in your home documents folder as well.Works every time I need to fix that when I'm at work. Let me know how it goes!
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Not knowing what version of Windows you are using. Explorer uses IE to open up folders. that could be what you're seeing.
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I don't think Xp lets you.. to Lock particular Folder but Sure there are other softwares to do Folder Locker is best one... try it free\nhttp://www.download.com
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Faulty hard drive...the seek time problem says it can't get to the data it needs in either the directory or the actual stored information.\n\nTrust me, you don't even want to THINK about 'fixing' a hard drive. REPLACE IT.
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you may have other programs running in your task bar or you have a virus.try defragmenting or deleting unused files.
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Hi Maña! Try to check these folders:\n\nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;%windows user%&#92;local setting&#92;internet temporal files\n\nC:&#92;%windows home%&#92;temp&#92;internet temporal files\n\nThese are the folders that Windows Xp uses to save the Internet cache files and it is an history of almost all visited sites (cached html files, images, videos, sounds, etc).\n\nWhere:\n \nC: is your hard drive unit.\n\n%windows user%: is the user that is used to initiated a session with Windows Xp.\n\n%windows home%: is the folder where windows is intalled
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Prefetch folder maintenance\nJason Johnson\n10.12.2004\nRating: -4.00- (out of 5) Hall of fame tip of the month winner\n\n\nThis tip was submitted to the SearchWin2000.com tip exchange by member Jason Johnson. Please let other users know how useful it is by rating it below.\n\nWindows XP caches frequent applications, services, and files in a folder called "prefetch" to speed the launching of these items. A problem with this is that XP isn't too smart about what it caches -- which includes one-time use setup files and Windows updates, as well as multiple copies of the same applications. This can lead to prefetch bloat and slower boot times.\n\nHowever you can easily clean it. Choose Start, Run and then type prefetch. The prefetch folder will open and you can safely delete many of these unnecessary shortcuts such as updates, patches, temp files, etc. Afterwards, XP should start quicker (you may want to do a defrag or defrag -b to fully realize the benefits.
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The most common cause of this symptom is insufficient RAM... Dell has a habit of selling underpowered PC's with as little as 256Mb of RAM... This is really insufficient to run XP!  A minimum of 512Mb should be installed (preferably 1Gb) to avoid this type of issue!