Re: Windows Explorer NoNetCrawling

From: Darren Mar-Elia (dmanonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:55:38 -0800

Mark-
That KB article is surprising to me. It seems to say that any registry key
under, for example,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\, can be
"moved" to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ and
the underlying application will properly find and respect it as a policy. Is
that really true across the board? I am quite surprised if it so. 

-- 
Darren Mar-Elia
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"Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:uHB1xMqxEHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> 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]
> Windows Platform Support Team
> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
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> "Bruce Sanderson" <Bruce.Sanderson@junk.junk> wrote in message 
> news:uF$xndfxEHA.3072@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> I've looked in the spread*** 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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