Windows XP is much slower than Windows 98 SE

From: Brian Selzer (BrianSelzer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:15:05 -0800

On network shares with a large number of files, listing the directory on
Windows XP running on new Dell with a 2.8GHz Pentium IV and 256MB RAM is
much, much slower than on an old Compaq Prosignia desktop running Windows 98
SE on a 700Mhz Pentium III with 64MB RAM. The network share is on an NTFS
volume, and I expect that is part of the problem. Is there any way to limit
Windows Explorer so that it doesn't try to retrieve additional information
from files on a network share?

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