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by devlin

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Hi ,
Just looking for any ideas on why Windwos 2000 client has very slow network speed , almost always a delay of 10/15 seconds on opening any network resource.
The machines are pretty high spec.
I currently have NT servers with a few Win2000 machines for testing purposes.
All ideas/suggestions would be grateful.
Thanks,

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by sprocket

BROWSING SPEEDUP

This works on ALL Windows 95/98/ME and NT4/2000/XP systems with MS Internet Explorer 4/5/6 installed.
This Registry fix speeds up internet/remote (using Windows Explorer and/or Internet Explorer) browsing process considerably onmost MS Windows 32-bit machines connected to a network and/or remote computer(s).
This actually fixes a BUG in MS Windows OS's that scan shared (remote) folders/files across the network for Scheduled Tasks, and can add a delay as long as 30 seconds(!), because it uses extra time to search the remote computer(s). :(
To do this, run Regedit and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace
In the right hand pane highlight the {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} Value and delete it: right-click on it -> select Delete -> click OK.

by devlin

still the same on initial network request, subsequent requests now see ok....any ideas why the initial request would still take 10-15 seconds??

by sprocket

All I can suggest is check that the machine is definately running 100mb on the network.
Win2000 is slower a network, security reasons, indexing etc. We have compared copy speeds across a network between 2000 and NT, and NT wins everytime.

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