SBS 2003 and clients EVER EVER so slow

Dear All

I have two clients now on a SBS Domain whereby they are incredibly slow
with file opening on the server, even reading directories too.

Last week it was just one and now another client, since this morning has the
same problem.

I notice when the client machine re-boots that a DOS CMD window comes up for
about 30 seconds and it contains the following string:-

NAMEOFSERVER//clients/setup.exe /s NAMEOFSERVER

It¹s after this runs that everything starts to come to a grinding halt.

Does anyone know what this is all about or know a fix or has come across it
before?

Can you please advise as it is driving us all crazy trying to carry out work
on these machines......

Cheers in advance

Steve Bragg

 

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Copied from my answer on microsoft.public.windows.server.general

I would check the affected computers thoroughly for malware and unauthorized
programs. Usually when you see this behavior it's something on the client
causing it. Try stopping or uninstalling any new programs on the clients. If
you have My Documents redirected to the server some versions of iTunes cause
this behavior. There are many other programs that cause similar problems.