Windows Explorer 'Flashlite' routine!

[Woogieman]

From time to time, when I first turn on one of my XP Pro machines and click on Windows Explorer, I get the Windows Explorer Flashlite routine. It obviously is trying to update itself - either for the files on one of it's own drives, or the files on another system connected to my network. I suspect that it's checking on a network system's drive but I'm not sure.

I need some advice on how to kill this irritating procedure. Any help (especially a good explanation) will be greatly appreciated.

[Sephiroth]

I think it's either one of two things:

#1: The Indexing service. It could be attempting to update the catalog and causing the wait. Try disabling the indexing service and see what happens.

#2: It's checking network shares to make sure they are valid and updating local info as to what those shares are sharing. There is a registry tweak to take care of that, but, off hand, I can't remember it, it's a pretty well known reg tweak. I'm pretty sure someone here knows what I'm talking about, it'll remove the delay when accessing network shares.

[Woogieman]

Thanks for the reply.

After writing my original plea I disabled the Indexing Service on all three hard drives on the system. This was a puzzle as I thought I had done this following installation on this system. Guess not.

Network shares: I had 2 pointing to another system on the network, so deleted them.

So far everything seems to be correct now.