
I'm a software engineer with a bachelors degree in CS, but my Windows admin skills are not that great. Malware Protection: Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.0 SP1

Here's a list of SW I'm running that might be relevant: I have done some googling, but haven't been able to find a solution. I have submitted tickets and talked to a couple people in my IT department, and they are stumped as well, though it seems other people have made similar complaints. I do not have offline files enabled or anything of that nature. If I connect to the VPN, however, the problem goes away.ĭuring these slow file operations, the task manager shows 99% idle, and there is plenty of memory available.

Like, sometimes just clicking on a file will cause the hourglass for several seconds before it appears as selected. However, when I'm offline, or on a different network, file operations in explorer become painfully slow. My work laptop (Lenovo 510W / XP Pro SP3 / Intel Core i7 CPU / 3 GB RAM / NVidia Quadro FX 880M ) behaves fine when connected to the work network.
