TortoiseHg and unreachable Windows mapped drives causes Windows Explorer slowdown?

[Pierre Rouleau]

Hi all,

With TortoiseHg 0.3 under Windows XP, Windows Explorer is responding 
very slowly when my computer is disconnected from the remote network 
drives that contain Mercurial repositories that were the parents of 
Mercurial repositories I have in my computer local drive.

Would I be correct to assume that the Windows Explorer slowdown is 
caused by TortoiseHg attempts to read the remote drives?

If this is the case, would it be possible to temporary disable 
TortoiseHg attempts to access the remote drive without de-installing 
TortoiseHg?

Thanks for any information.

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Pierre