Re: Windows Explorer NoNetCrawling

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From: Mark Renoden [MSFT] (markreno_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/09/04

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    Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:29:26 +1100

    Hi Bruce

    You can create a custom .ADM that won't tattoo the registry by following:

    323639 HOW TO: Create Custom Administrative Templates in Windows 2000
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=323639

    By utilising the policies branch in the registry, you avoid persistent
    settings.

    Kind regards 

    -- 
Mark Renoden [MSFT]
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"Bruce Sanderson" <Bruce.Sanderson@junk.junk> wrote in message 
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> I've looked in the spreadsheet from 
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7821C32F-DA15-438D-8E48-45915CD2BC14&displaylang=en, 
> but can't find a Policy setting that is equivalent to 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\NoNetCrawling.
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\NoNetCrawling 
> appears to relate to the Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Optons, View, 
> Automatically search for network folders and printers.
>
> When this item in View has a check mark, NoNetCrawling is zero; when it 
> has a check mark, NoNetCrawling is 1.
>
> Now, I know I can set NoNetCrawling in a Logon Script or by using a Custom 
> ADM template, but these would not establish a "Policy", but rather "tatoo" 
> the user's registry.
>
> Is there a way to set NoNetCrawling as a "Policy"?  I'm prepared to create 
> a custom ADM, but I'm not sure what Policy registry entry to set to 
> accomplish this.
>
> When users have a check mark in "Automatically search for network folders 
> and printers", Windows Explorer appears to use excessive CPU time on our 
> Windows 2003 Terminal Servers.  Note that I have already have hotfix 
> described in KB article 831129 installed and have set 
> NoRemoteRecursiveEvents and NoRemoteChangeNotify to 1 using a Custom ADM 
> and a Group Policy Object.  These did make a difference, but Windows 
> Explorer is stil using excessive CPU time when users have a check mark in 
> "Automatically search for network folders and printers".
>
> I've turned this off via the Tools, Folder Options, View gui for a few 
> users that Task Manager showed their explorer.exe process using a lot of 
> CPU time. This improved the perceived performance for those users and 
> ameliorated the heavy CPU load, so now I'd like to turn this off 
> permanently for all users.
>
> -- 
> Bruce Sanderson MVP
>
> It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
>
>
>
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