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XP vs other OS's on the LAN
Task: Open Windows Explorer, browse to a Win2k or Win2k3
server location, and click on a folder to view its contents. Wait time for contents to appear in right pane of Explorer: XP - 20-25 seconds; other OS's - none. Also no wait time foor XP if server location is NT4. What gives? And don't tell me I'm crazy; I've been trolling the newsgroups for answers to this question, and there are many of us out there with this problem, but so far no one has the answer. |
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XP vs other OS's on the LAN
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:47:33 -0700, "Frustrated"
wrote: Task: Open Windows Explorer, browse to a Win2k or Win2k3 server location, and click on a folder to view its contents. Wait time for contents to appear in right pane of Explorer: XP - 20-25 seconds; other OS's - none. Also no wait time foor XP if server location is NT4. What gives? And don't tell me I'm crazy; I've been trolling the newsgroups for answers to this question, and there are many of us out there with this problem, but so far no one has the answer. Hey Frustrated, You're not crazy. But you are wrong - the answers are out there. Of course, not every suggestion works equally well for everybody. And not every suggestion (thread) get posted to every forum. For myself, and based upon various articles "out there", I tried the following procedures / settings on my computers with some success: 1) Disable LMHOSTS lookup (TCP/IP - Properties - Advanced - WINS). 2) Change Provider Order (Network Connections - Advanced - Advanced Settings - Provider Order) to: - Microsoft Windows Network - Web Client Network - Microsoft Terminal Services 3) Disable DNS caching (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Services - DNS Client - Properties - Stop then Disable). 4) Defrag each partition accessed across network regularly. Keep optimisation above 95% routinely. 5) Get behind a NAT router. Less trash traffic hitting your internet client, less work by the firewall. Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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