Slow Network Drive

[Poor_Prince23]

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Hi newbie here sa networking.. simple question, i mapped a drive from my other pc, and though it can read it.. it takes forever to open a folder and files ... anybody got ideas on how to solve this? thanks

[Tamblot]

try to continiously ping your other pc and check the time. note also the time outs.

[BadDudes]

what OS are you using?

[Poor_Prince23]

win xp

[BadDudes]

WARNING THIS MAY CAUSE YOUR MACHINE TO CRASH

Speed up your network browsing by tweaking your registry.

When you use My Network Places to browse for other machines on your network, it usually takes a long time to display the list of shared resources for the target machine. This is because Windows XP first checks for the scheduled tasks on the target machine before listing the shared resources present on the computer.

This unnecessary checking can easily add 30 seconds of delay. You can decrease the time browsing takes by modifying the Registry to turn off this checking:

Invoke the Registry Editor by typing regedit at the command line.

Open the Registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\
Remote Computer\NameSpace
Delete the following key
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
Close the Registry and reboot.

That's it! You should now be able to browse to another computer on the network without much delay.

[Poor_Prince23]

bad dudes should i do that to both pcs? or to the one having the prob accessing lang? anyways il try it, i dont thnk the delay is 30 seconds, mu hang jud siya eventually while opening folders...thanks anyways!