Ever just live with something and think that's just the way it is, and you just have to deal with it? Well, that's me in a nutshell when it came to Sharepoint's Explorer View.
Every single time, from every box in our network, using Explorer View was just a dog to use. Regular views were just fine, but accessing a document library through the Explorer View on the side or using UNC filepaths to access documents (\\server\sitecollection\site\DocumentLibrary for example) was just too slow to be usable, and I just thought... that's the way things are.
Then we had a consultant come in and help speed us up on our deployment. He immediately commented... “Wayne, that's just too darn slow”. We had him access explorer view from his laptop and voila! it was super speedy.
So I unloaded OfficeScan on my machine and re-accessed it, and voila! it was also super speedy.
In the meantime, we've opened up a ticket with Trend to ask how to either
- configure it to “ignore“ our SPS server
- get an update that's more sharepoint friendly
- configure tweaks to speed performance in a sharepoint environment.