Speed Up Network Browsing

It seems to take forever to browse the folders on the other PCs on my network. How can I speed things up?


The Scheduled Tasks folder, which appears in My Network Places along with your shared folders and printers, is responsible for much of the slowdown. Since the shared Scheduled Tasks folder takes so long to load, and has very little value to most Windows users, you can just
turn off the share to speed things up.

Open the Registry Editor (select Start --> Run and type regedit ), and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSp
. Inside the NameSpace key, you may see one or several subkeys, each responsible for a special shared folder.

To see what any one of these subkeys does, select it and look at the (Default ) value in the right pane. To stop sharing Scheduled Tasks , just delete the {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} key.

While you're here, you can further improve performance by turning off the Printers and Faxes share. If you don't plan on sharing any printers, delete the {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} key.

Close the Registry Editor when you're done. The change should take effect immediately.

Note: If, for some reason, you want to re-enable the Scheduled Tasks share, just recreate the subkey. Select Edit --> New --> Key and type {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF } for its name .