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Start Menu Freeze When Hovering Over Link to Machine that's Turned Off
I have a network of about 7 machines. At any given time, around 3 are turned on. Every machine has start menu links to shares on all the other machines, all grouped by machine. When I try to click on a link on an active machine, my mouse frequently hovers over one of my inactive machines and I have to wait about 10 seconds for a response. It's actually pretty much impossible, as I move down the list to reach the machine I want, not to hover over an inactive machine and get the lag.
It seems that when you hover, the normal behavior is to poll the external share in some way and if the link is broken, windows waits. Is there a way of turning this off? And, no, I'm not willing to turn off the expand menus when hovering feature- I use the start menu way too much to add those extra clicks for drilling down.
All I want is for the start menu to display links quickly- whether they're currently broken or not.