I have been trying to figure this out for a while and I am not sure where to look for the answer.

I have a number of very powerful and very fast machines in our office. They run fine for the most part, but one aspect is really getting on my nerves.

When I connect to our office share drives on the network it seems to take quite a long time for the folder to load up. It seems to sit at a blank page until it finally populates it with all the files/folders and then everything seems to work fine and quickly, but then all of the sudden it get very slow and lagggs a lot when going from folder to folder.

The strange thing is I never get this type of problem on my computer.

What are somethings I should look for which can really hang up network drive access? Could it be related to the windows firewall or possibly an anti-virus? Or has anyone seen this type of lag before?