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by babbage

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I have three machines on my LAN, a Win2K, an XP and a Win98 box. I can access any network drive and the contents of its folders from the Win2k or the Win 98 machine within microseconds, but the WinXP box always takes sometimes in excess of 5 minutes to display the contents of a folder on the network. Ok, i have a internal hardware firewall but that shouldn't effect me internally. Does anyone have any tips on what I should check on to get slightly better performance when accessing network folders from my XP machine??!?

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by alpha-male

We don't have a lot of details here (peer to peer LAN? Client Server? Protocols?) but here are a few things to look over...make sure to try this:

1. Open regedit.exe from Start->Run
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
3. Under that branch, select the key {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
4. Delete it

This key instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks on remote computers. Unless you use this feature, which most people don't (for remote machines), it is safe to delete this key.

here are some reference sites:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hutch/win2k/win982kbrowse.html

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322097

http://www.betuwe.net/~avatar/speed.html

Also, make sure you have the latest SP on XP. It apparently resolved a few glitches with connectivity speed (Netware in particular...)

Good luck, hope this helps!

by jasonbis

Right click on my network places and select properties. Right click on the local are connection and select properties. Scroll through here and make sure you don't have any other protocols installed such as ipx/spx or netbeui as they will slow the network down. You didn't give specifics as to what type of network so I assume you don't need anything other than tcpip. If anything else is installed remove it and reboot. That should speed things up.

by design

I run a p2p network too with WIN98 on the other machines. I don't have the same problem.
I suspect that your XP machine has a virus checker that is activated e.g. NAV (Norton Anti Virus)has settings that allow you check everything on the network. You can turn that off in NAV.
Cheers!
Duke

by babbage

I solved this problem by a tip from another user. When I turned of the Service called Web Service, I was able to access my network drives without any problem. This service apparently treats online drives as a local drive and takes a siginificant amount of time to interrogate for those online drives. Thanks for all your help with diagnosing this, but the solution has been reached.

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