No system is an island - Using Windows And Tech Step By Step

While using My Network Places in Windows XP for browsing other machines on network,it is quite common to see a delay when the list of all neighbouring machines is displayed alongwith the shared stuff they have over network.




Basically,the first thing XP does is see the scheduled tasks on remote machines before listing out the shared resources they have.This can be quite intensive,often causing the local system to hang while using My Network Places.

Why not turn off the checking of scheduled tasks on remote machines and simply return a list of neighbourhood boxes?
This can be done by simply deleting a registry key so that network browsing will be a lot quicker.


Here is the method :

1.Open registry editor : Start>Run>regedt32



2.Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Remote Computer\NameSpace

3.All we are doing is removing an entry in the remote machine namespace on the local box,delete this default key : {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

4.Save the changes and reboot the machine.

Note : Before tinkering with Windows registry for any tweak,please backup the registry.Refer my earlier post on that.

Experience the faster browsing of remote machines via My Network Places and rejoice.

Peace.