graemeh: When you disabled NOD32 was that on the "server"? The server seems to be the common element here as the support win7 laptop has presumably worked OK at the vendor site.
No, but I will try that too. I'm not sure if it will help though as the XP workstation doesn't have the speed issue and it is accessing data on the same server.
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.
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