W2K/XP Speed Tweak

[crunchie]

W2K & XP speed tweak.

Hey ppl.

Try this tip I found off of a website.

It makes Internet & Windows Explorer incredibly fast.

Windows Explorer opens up almost instantly now!!!

Here it is:

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug that by default of a normal Windows 2000 setup that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And its turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network as Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the Remote Computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 & XP users will experience that actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improving significantly after applying it since it doesnt search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :

Open up the Registry and go to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace

Under that branch, select the key :

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

Right click it and select "Delete".

I did this after a reformat & it smokes now!!!! 4 weeks now with zero adverse affects that I have noticed.

[crunchie]

Come on guys, a little feed back.

[THE MICK]

I can't find any information on the MSKB about this? Where did you hear this? A link would be nice too?

If no one is responding I would guess people don't like deleting stuff from the reg. without verifacation links etc.

[Ozmodius]

Saw this tweak on another site, too. It really does work on W9x systems. You definitely notice a difference with dialup!!

[crunchie]

No worries. Here is one. If you want more, copy the text & run a search in google.

[Ozmodius]

I think this is the same place I got my information. I have a hardcopy printed, but will check this later when I have time. I will post it to see if it is the same, okay?

[jenae]

Hi, this has been around for quite a while, and we have had discussions about it before. This is the link you are quoting from:-
http://www.winxpcentral.com/windows2...eedup-2000.php
It is mentioned on many sites and recommended by many. Now I don't see any reason not to apply it. I have it applied on my 2k machines even though it makes no difference since it only effects network traffic .

[crunchie]

Originally posted by jenae
Hi, this has been around for quite a while, and we have had discussions about it before. This is the link you are quoting from:-
http://www.winxpcentral.com/windows2...eedup-2000.php
It is mentioned on many sites and recommended by many. Now I don't see any reason not to apply it. I have it applied on my 2k machines even though it makes no difference since it only effects network traffic .

Cool, but it was new to me.

[user595212]

Hmmmm. Fascinating. I just checked my registry for that and . . . I don't have that key!! Could I have disabled the setting somewhere in "English" (i.e., not numbers)? Probably, but I can't recall where . . . Could be because I don't have any tasks set up on the other network computer . . . or on the Internet? (I'm not terribly good with schedules for anything . . . seems whenever I set it up to perform some task, I'm either busy with something or the computer isn't even on!)

I must be donig something right. Although my IE does at times creep. Mostly because the next page is trying to pop up something.

Cheers
Wendy

[THE MICK]

OK, I just tried this on a XP Pro system after feeling that I had a good enough system backup and a reg backup too.

After saving that key here is what I got...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]
@="Scheduled Tasks"

So, I guess it really did have to do with scheduled tasks!

But I see no speed improvement with IE on the internet at all.

As far as opening up explorer faster... It appears no faster to me on 2 of my servers.

I guess it may work on a system that is on a dial up???

[John Steven]

I viewed this thread when it was first posted and remembered that I had a slow network problem about a year and a half ago and it was cured with the very same fix as crunchie gave (my thanks to DrMDJ), and yes it did speed up my network. Since then I have had to redo my system a few times and this is one of the very first tweaks I do after the new system is up 'n running.

Remember, whenever you delete a registry key ALWAYS BACK IT UP.

Hope this clears things up a bit..........

[LotusAstra]

Yup, this is a good tweak, but i don't think it's for people with just one PC... I think this tweak is only useful for PC's on a LAN... i've used this tweak myself ever since Win 2000 and it's been very rewarding, it makes searching/browsing PC's in network neighbourhood very much faster...

I don't bother going directly into REGEDIT to do this tweak, i've created a *.reg file with all the keys that i always add and delete from XP's registry, then at any time, just one click on the *.reg file and all is done for me... I also include my *.reg file in my custom unattended XP install and it's all done automatically...