Here is the topology. Workgroup file sharing. Opening an Excel file on a W7 machine with Office 2003. When the file is hosted on an XP machine, the file opens fast. When the file is hosted on a Win8 machine the file opens SLOW, like count to 15 seconds slow. Nothing else is changed. I can recreate this on a second computer and it is even slow with Excel 2013 trying to open the file and not Excel 2003. I added the network shares as trusted locations in Excel 2013. No help.
Suggestions?
NC Bob