I’m posting this as a follow up on my previous post IE7 & Windows Vista Slow To Load Sites? since the findings somewhat surprises me. Thanks to Andreas who posted a comment that pointed me in the right direction.

Andreas’s posting sent me to this blog post by Mark Russinovich, where he goes in to detail why a 5-15 second delay happens when you try to open files. This delay also occurs when downloading files with IE7 and you select ‘Save as…’ if you try to save somewhere inside your profile and we all know the new default location in Vista is C:\Users\\Downloads (aka. inside your profile). I recommend you to read the complete post over at Mark’s place if you want details, but this is his conclusion;

“My investigation had come to a close. I had determined that Windows Vista’s File Open dialog tries to look up a user’s display name for the “bread crumbâ€� bar when showing the documents folder and in the process tries to locate a domain controller by sending a Lan Manager datagram via the Bowser.sys device driver. I also knew that there’s no workaround for the delayed dialogs and that…

The following video shows exactly what Microsoft changed in the new Xbox 360 Elite complete with commentary…

News Source: www.maxconsole.net

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