Very Slow "File Open" from any application

One of my users has a ThinkPad t61 running Windows XP Professional and when ever using the "File Open" function from ANY application it takes for ever to move from folder to folder. This occurs regardless of whether it is a local file or a file on the network. And is independent of the application that is being used. Anyone have any ideas? We did a "clean" install of the notebook and that did not make any difference, it still took aver a minute and during this time the dialogue box would show the "Not Responding" message and then eventually you could access the file(s) you wre try to ge to.

I've seen a similar situation where it takes a long time to initialize the folder browser window when opening files. This was caused by a mapped network drive that couldn't be contacted. Unmapping the drive fixed the problem. This was in XP but Vista has more or less the same crappy networking browsing code.

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