Windows Explorer Hangs

Just ran into an issue I wanted to document for the future, and others who might run into it.

On my Windows XP laptop, Windows Explorer would hang for 30-60 seconds whenever I would click around. It would literally just stall and not let me click on any folders and show "Not Responding" in the menubar.

The problem, as I've now discovered, is that one of the Mapped Network Drives no longer exists and it was timing out while trying to connect.

Disconnecting the network drive in Windows Explorer solved the problem.

I hope I've saved someone aggravation at some point down the line.