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by nicholasp

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I have been upgrading a bunch of computers to W2K from NT4, and it seems to be making my life easier..... except that people have started to complain that the PC is slower..

It seems that browsing the network, or clicking on MY Computer takes a good 12-15 seconds. Any ideas?

I have a 100 Megabit connection to the network witht the latest drivers and I am running Netware 4

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by ann777

Make sure that TCP/IP is first in your list of protocols:

right-click on "My Network Places"
normal-click on Properties
norlam-click on Advanced
normal-click on Advanced Settings

Make sure that Microsoft Windows Network is first in the Provider Order tab.

Make sure that TCP/IP is first in each of the Adapters and Bindings tab.

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How much memory does each of these computers have? Is it just some computers? Or are they all slow?

by nicholasp

I have already checked that. The PC's have 256 Meg of memory. The slowness seems to be happening on all W2K machines and not the NT4 machines

by chris hirst

The problem will be a name resolution one, As Win2k uses DNS as the primary name resolver you will have to have a DNS server on your network or use the HOSTS files to resolve network names.

by sritter

We experienced something similar, and we found that the culprit was the Microsoft Client. If you don't need to connect to any NT or 2000 servers, you can uncheck or completely uninstall the Microsoft Client from the Local Area Connections properties.

by sritter

Have you tried putting your scope slp directory agent in statically in your client settings? It is on the Service location tab of your client properties. Windows 2000 searches DHCP, DNS, and the host file asynchonously to find your directory agent. If you put it in and check the static box, it seems to find everything faster.

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