Re: Windows Explorer NoNetCrawling

From: Bruce Sanderson (bsanders_at_junk.junk)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:42:51 -0800

Mark: perhaps you could shed some light on my question below.

The section titled "True Policies vs. Preferences" in the white paper at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/gp/admtgp.mspx

says that the "The Preferred Location" for policy settings is
HKLM\Software\Policies.

I changed the custom ADM to use the registry location
 HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Explorer\NoNetCrawling
but this did not appear to work - "Automatically search for network folders
and printers" still showed in Windows Explorer, Explorer, Tools, Folder
Options, View.

Is this because:

1. I don't have the key hierarchy in HKLM\Software\Policies\ correct in the
ADM?
or
2. Windows Explorer does not obey policy settings in this "Preferred"
location?

I tested this on a Windows XP SP2 computer as well as Windows 2003 Server
with the same result. 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
"Mark Renoden [MSFT]" <markreno@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eF7ZZGrxEHA.3212@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi Darren
>
> My experience is that Windows honours these policies.
>
> Kind regards
> -- 
> Mark Renoden [MSFT]
> Windows Platform Support Team
> Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com
>
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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
>> 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
>>>
>>> Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to
>>> email me; I'll post a response back to the group.
>>>
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>>> rights.
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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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