Question : Right click on folder,can not open Properties and Sharing.

Hi all,

Windows 2000 advanced server.
I login as local administrator.

When I explore my pc, right click on Local disk(C:),(or other disk) or any folder, select Properties or Sharing... , I can not open the pop-up menu. that means I can not see any information ( from properties) or do anything related with file Sharing. One more things, When I copy files from one PC to another, it looks very slowly.
And sometimes one file sized 6k will become 120M, It made me crazy. All the PC run Norton AntiVirus. No virus was found.

Any ideas?

Thanks.


Daniel

Answer : Right click on folder,can not open Properties and Sharing.

If you have installed Zone Alarm you may want to try this next time.

http://windows.about.com/library/tips/bltip437.htm

Windows 2000/NT Tip of the Day
 
Tip #437: Folder Properties Work-around when using ZoneAlarm  More Tips - By Category
 
Once you install ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall and try to see Folder properties using Properties Box it won't work.  To solve that problem follow this method (Windows 2000 Advanced Server/Server OS):

1. Click 'Start' button from Task Bar and select 'Programs,' 'Administrative Tools,' 'Services.'
2. Select 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' from services list. From that you can notice that 'Status' of 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' is showing something like 'Starting'. It means the whole day it won't come up.
3. Double Click on that, you will see Properties Box of select service.
4. Click 'Startup Type' Combo box and select the type as 'Manual' and click 'OK' button.
5. And Re-start your machine. Then next time when you select 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' you can notice that nothing is showing as 'Status' of that 'World Wide Web Publishing Service'. Now if you want you can startup the service manually and once the service is trying to access LAN/WAN ZoneAlarm ask you to permit it. So if you permitted it'll work the way 'World Wide Web Publishing Service' earlier worked. This actually a work-around for this problem.

Tip submitted by: thilina

PS: System information that this tip was generated from:
The version of ZoneAlarm is ZoneAlarm - Release 2.6. and the ZoneAlarm.exe file version is 2.6.0.88.


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