Re: Windows Explorer Takes forever to show content...

Richard in AZ wrote:
"Ron" <fdskljfoiewiorewuokdvsfds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u6bLmMz4GHA.4196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks. I did exactly as you said but that doesn't make a difference. Windows Explorer is still sloooooowwwww..... when accesing network folder which contains thousands of files and subfolders.

Any other tricks?

John John wrote:

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace Select key: (select the whole folder)

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}


and delete the key.

Before you delete it you might want to export (save) the key... just in case.

John

Ron wrote:


WinXP Pro SP2 (+ latest patches) on a switched network (10/100Mbps) with WinServer 2003, DNS and WINS enabled.

Everytime users access a network folder (server shared folder or W2k Pro shared folder), it takes 20 seconds or longer to display the content. The folder in question contains 2000 and more files. Accessing the same folder with Windows 95, 98SE only takes 3 second (or less) before the content is displayed on the monitor.

Why is WinXP Windows Explorer slower than older version of Windows? It happens on all WinXP machines but not Win9x. Is there any trick to speed it up?

Thanks much.

Try this:
Go to Start - Run and type in "msconfig" without the quotes.
Then go to the services tab and uncheck, Windows Image Acquisition (WIA).
Restart your computer and check the Windows Explorer again.
If this works go to the Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services and change WIA to manual start.
WIA is known to slow down Windows Explorer openings



Thanks but that doesn't help either :-( I notice that browsing Windows Server 2003 shared folder from a remote workstation (with XP Pro) isn't as slow as browsing Win2000 Pro shared folder. However, Win9x displays shared folder content so much quicker than XP. Perhaps this is related to the OS architecture. Something that we just have to live with if we want to use XP.
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