I've looked on the web for something without finding it and was thinking of doing it myself but didn't want to re-invent the wheel:
I work remotely and have a very fast internet connection, but Window's explorer requests so much un-necessary garbage that it is very, very slow when looking at drives on the corporate server. In fact, I can more quickly use the Remote Desktop Connection to the server if I need to move things around or traverse down a few directories. I've looked at several Window's Explorer replacements to see if they might be faster, but they really aren't and I suspect that much of that is due to them using the same underlying Windows OS functions as Explorer does. I can CD and DIR with blazzing speed at a DOS prompt, but the GUI's are too slow. Creating my own explorer using WIN32::GUI was one thing I tossed around, but I had a question of those familiar with the directory browsing functions: Does WIN32::GUI simply use much of the OS's functions for browsing directories and thus suffer the same SLOW response over a VPN connection? If anyone knows of a browser that is faster over a VPN connection (no need to re-invent the wheel) please let me know. Greg
