[rh71]

I work at home thru VPN on my 100mbps ethernet-connected laptop - we have a lot of server shares for work and I run a batch file to establish connection to about 4 of them (all needed). Before I got this new machine, on my old XP machine, displaying "My Computer" or scrolling through any file listing within a directory on the share wouldn't be an issue. Right now on a new machine (XP SP3), I have to wait 5-10 seconds before anything on My Computer shows up. Also, once I am able to navigate into any shared directory, the file listing shows up but when I scroll up and down through it, it's very slow to respond, like it's building a list. It's not even showing one by one, it just doesn't respond for 10 seconds then it moves down. This happens the first time through the file list (~50 files) taking 30 seconds or so, then I can scroll freely through it. If I navigate out of that directory, it will do this slow-down again the next time going back to that same directory. These are not encrypted dirs/files either.

This obviously doesn't happen if it's not a share (or I didn't net use any shares for the session yet).

Is there a setting I'm missing? At first I thought it was the Symantec AV auto-protect but even with it disabled it's acting like this. Everything such as the net connection is the same. I am on FIOS 20/5Mbps with no other activity - I'm the only one in the house.

[TerryNet]

I don't know if the following is your issue or not, but it wouldn't hurt for you to try it.

(from a JohnWill post)

Fix for slow network browsing, Stop Browsing Scheduled Tasks.


Hold the Windows key and press R, then type regedit in the text box and click the OK button.

Once the Registry Editor has loaded, expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key.
Next, expand Software and Microsoft, then Windows and expand that as well.

You will want to be editing the main system files, so expand CurrentVersion, then Explorer key.

Next, you will want to modify the remote computer settings, so expand the RemoteComputer key and then expand the NameSpace key to show all of the features that are enabled when you browse to a remote computer.

In the NameSpace folder you will find two entries. One is "{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}" which tells Explorer to show printers shared on the remote machine. The other, "{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}," tells Explorer to show remote scheduled tasks. This is the one that you should delete. This will prevent the system from browsing the scheduled tasks on the remote computer which seems to take forever for some strange reason.