Explorer hangs - Possibly trying to open a network file?

When I open a new Windows Explorer or browse to a new folder, the window consistently hangs for 30 seconds or more. I've confirmed that this is related to tortoise (1.5.6 and 7) by uninstalling and reinstalling the entire application several times. There is no spike in CPU, memory or network utilization; it's clear that Explorer is waiting for something.

I've tried to set the include/exclude dir as several people have suggested and made random changes to different settings, all to no avail.

What's interesting is that this does not ever happen when I'm at work; only when I take my laptop home. What I just discovered is that I can connect to the VPN, open explorer (works great), then disconnect and explorer continues to function just fine. So my theory is that Tortoise is looking for a file in some network location when it first opens (HOME environment variable or somesuch), waits for that to fail, then moves on with it's normal business.

Is there a file that it might be trying to open? Is there an environment variable or other setting that Tortoise might be using to find a file even if the drive is disconnected? Does it retry if the desired file isn't found?

Love the tool, but this is a killer.

Thanks,
-- Jeff

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Received on 2009-02-04 15:20:14 CET