Re: Windows Explorer NoNetCrawling

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

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:12:33 +1100

Hi Darren

My experience is that Windows honours these policies.

Kind regards 

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"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> 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
> MS-MVP-Windows Server--Group Policy
> Check out http://www.gpoguy.com -- The Windows Group Policy Information 
> Hub:
> FAQs, Whitepapers and Utilities for all things Group Policy-related
>
>
>
> "Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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>> 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
>>
>> Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to email 
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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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