Speed up & Browse Windows 2000 faster

By Rick E.J

This Tip is kindly contributed by my buddy Jason Edwards, a Snr. Network Engineer with a Large Network Firm.

Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 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 from as Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improving significantly after applying it since it doesnt search for the 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}

and delete it.


This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary. This fix is so effective that it doesn't require a reboot and you can almost immediately determine yourself how much it speeds up your browsing processes.

Updates
Note : This branch also exists in both Win98 & ME and Ive got so many mails asking me if it's safe to apply the fix on it. However, I would like to warn users that the fix is intended only for Windows 2000. If you decide to try it for your Win98/ME system, pls make sure that you back up or export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if something goes wrong. Currently there are more than 20 users that have tried the fix in Win98/ME. Out of this 20, there are 4 users who reported that problems arises (2 lost their net connection, 1 BSOD, 1 cant view Windows Explorer) after removing the branch while the balance 16 reported great success.