# Slow network access compared to Windows Explorer

**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/slow-network-access-compared-to-windows-explorer/36568
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/slow-network-access-compared-to-windows-explorer/36568 "2020-09-01T17:28:15Z")
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### Author: ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/slow-network-access-compared-to-windows-explorer/36568/4 "2020-09-01T19:39:12Z")

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> [@lingpx](#):
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> I don't see this option on DO Light - Preferences / Miscellaneous / Windows Integration / Hide Windows items on file context menus (shift overrides)

Disabling the Microsoft entries via ShellExView would do something similar and might be worth a try in that case.

> [@lingpx](#):
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> I don't see this option on DO Light - Preferences / Folders / Folder Display / Show generic icons for... network drives

If it isn't folders with exe files in then you can probably ignore that part.

Other than those things, I'm not sure why reading directories would be slower in one program than the other. The folder listing ultimately comes from Windows.

What sort of speeds do you see in other software? For example, the _dir_ command from a command prompt, on the same drive/path?

There is a fairly exhaustive list of things that may affect speed here: [General slowdown or instability investigation steps](https://resource.dopus.com/t/general-slowdown-or-instability-investigation-steps/4618)

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