Comments on: XP: Speed Up Network Browsing

By: JonnaV

JonnaV — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:33:17 +0000

I tried this today and feel like it worked just great. I have been putting up with this for a year now.

Thank you for taking the time to add this “fix”. Yes, it was only a few seconds, but that wasn’t long enough for a break and too long for no good reason.

Jonna

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:05:53 +0000

The webclient hack works.

Thanks !!! :lol:

By: Just Passing Thru

Just Passing Thru — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:27:07 +0000

I tried the registry trick with no luck, but here’s what finally fixed it:

WindowsXP runs the WebClient service which is used to seamlessy integrate with WebDav, but slows down your folder browsing (it has to time out before passing the request back to the normal process).

Go to Control Panel, Services, and locate WebClient. Right click and stop this service, then try your browsing.. you can always restart it if you don’t like the results. If you like it, double click on the service and select DISABLE from the Startup Type drop down menu.

By: aRcaNia

aRcaNia — Thu, 20 May 2004 07:10:22 +0000

I’m not 100% sure, but I think our very same problem started with the installation of our firewall. It seems to be blocking the broadcasts from the servers master browser list. So basically, every time the machine gets rebooted, it has to find and verify the server is on it’s local network segment…

By: xp

xp — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:51:03 +0000

I have 3 XP machines.
two are connect by CAT 5 to Linksys wireless router
one is connected by USB wireless to the Linksys

I did the regedit thingee here on all 3 machines.
rebooted all three machines.
Opening Network Neighborhood remained at 30 seconds.

So this tip, in MY EXPERIENCE, is hog wash .. NO GOOD.
Did it work for anyone??
Any other ideas?

By: Just Some Guy

Just Some Guy — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 03:31:48 +0000

I’ve had the same problem for weeks (since XP was installed) on our PC’s here at work. This solution worked for us: In the Novell Client Properties Advanced Settings make sure “bad server name cache enabled” is on and that the “bad server name cache timeout” is set to the max value.

By: no1inparticular

no1inparticular — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:38:54 +0000

I have been search for a solution to that 10 to 15 second delay when accessing network directories and thought this would be it, BUT when I checked my registry, this file is already gone and XP is still slow to access the network drives initially. Once it has accessed a drive, XP seems to remember and is pulls them up fast the next time, but eventually as I change from directory to directory, it starts again. I’ve also noticed that when working in a program that accesses a file on one of the network drives, sometimes it takes so long for XP to access the network, that the program I’m using has started to time out.

Any suggestions would be SO greatly appreciated. I know it’s only 10 or 15 seconds, but it’s a real pain in the net.

Thanks!

By: mehran

mehran — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:21:19 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:55:07 +0000

This “pause” can happen on 2000 as well. I’ve seen it in a Novell Network for the most part, but it can happen on any non MS file server. The Novell way of getting rid of it is to upgrade to Novell Client 4.83 SP1 or better which removes this function for the Novell shares, but Samba still pauses. The above regedit will fix it in most cases, but upgrading explorer or several other pieces of the MS pile mayh cause it to revert to the original version. The Novell fix is permanent.