When you try to view the contents of a mapped VAX drive or a
UNC reference in the
Open dialog box from any Microsoft Office
2003 or 2007 Microsoft Office product, you may experience a 1 to 5 minute delay before the contents of
the share appears.
This problem occurs if the share contains shortcuts (shell
links) to files that are stored elsewhere. The
Open dialog box
tries to resolve the links in each shortcut to see if it matches the filtered
view. This can take longer than you expect on a mapped VAX drive, or if you are
accessing a share through UNC reference.
To work around this problem, create the
DisableAutoselect registry key. The
DisableAutoselect registry key turns off the
Open dialog box
behavior. When the
DisableAutoselect registry key is turned on, the
Open dialog box
does not filter the files before they appear.
To create this registry key, follow these steps, as appropriate for the version of Office that you are running.
Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious
problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft
cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry
Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own
risk.
Office 2003
Follow
these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:
- Click Start, click Run,
type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find
- On the Edit menu, point to
New, and then click DWORD value.
- Type DisableAutoselect, and then
press ENTER.
- On the Edit menu, click
Modify.
- Type 1, and then click
OK.
The 2007 Office suites
Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:
- Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
- Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Open Find
- On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD value.
- Type DisableAutoselect, and then press ENTER.
- On the Edit menu, click Modify.
- Type 1, and then click OK.
If you set the value of
DisableAutoselect to 1, the
Open dialog box will not filter
shortcuts. If you set the value of the
DisableAutoselect to zero (0), the
Open dialog box will filter
shortcuts.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.