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To: Alex Molnar who wrote (36591)9/8/2003 10:44:51 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 110652
 
Alex,

Someone posted this XP network tweak here a few months ago. It definitely makes a dramatic difference. I thanked them after their posting but I don't remember who it was. Hopefully it help you out.

Speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. (This one works well, you can see the difference)
Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key : {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.