Slow saving from Office Applications with Windows 7

Our problem: after upgrade some laptops from Windows Vista to Windows 7 we found that Office 2007 applications took a lot of time (more than 30 seconds) to save any document in a either a network share or a local SharePoint site. This behavior was not occurring in other operating systems like Windows Vista, XP or Windows 2003/2008 Terminal Server working with the same documents.  Even installing a fresh copy of windows 7 over the same laptops did not resolve the problem

Solution: There are some forums in the Internet that mention SMB as the reason for this problem. In our particular scenario, the solution was to disable the Indexing of Offline files in Win7 clients. The procedure is:

1)      Type Indexing Options in the search box over the start button

2)      Press the Modify Button

3)      uncheck the "offline files" option

4)      Restart the equipment.