[Takashi]

Recently I've upgraded the OS on both of my machines and networking just became really slow.

I was running Win98 on both machines before and I didn't have a problem with network speed but Now that after I've upgraded to a Win2K Pro and WinMe Box, here's the problems I'm beginning to have:

Networking really slow, when I browse the network in the network neighborhood it's really really slow, takes ages to load up. And when I tried to copy files back and forth, it would take ages! Copying a 100Meg folder would take 365minutes?? What da? It use to only take about 5 minutes! maybe less even, Obviously there's something wrong.

I'm using WinRoute Lite on the Win2k Machine because I needed to forward a ports to my WinME machine for a certain application, therefore I can't erase WinRoute, [Unless someone can tell me if Win2k itself has a port forwarding util or if there's a way to forward a port in win2k?]

Anyways, I recall seeing some tweaks I can do in the registery? I can't remember anymore... it was a while ago.

Anyways, thanks for anyone who can help.

[HELLBRINGER]

Yeah I have that exact same problem too. I think its just the fact that WinME sucks major ***... And it was not designed for networking in any way at all! We are lucky they even put in network support on that OS. What a waste...

I don't know if there is a patch but you might look at Microsoft's database of problems, which IS FREKKIN HUGE! LOL thats MS for you...

[Nogib]

The slow network browsing is due to Win2K. Delete this registry key on your Win2K machine:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

By deafualt, Win2K is always searching for scheduled tasks on any machine you network to. Deleting this key stops Win2K from doing that. It solved my problem of taking nearly a full minute to connect to my WinME machines.

For file copying, I use IPX/SPX exclusively for file sharing (TCP/IP is only used for internet) and those long copies went away. Perhaps someone can shed some light on why TCP/IP takes forever to copy between 9X and 2K machines.

[Takashi]

Wow thanks! I'm gonna try thay out and let you know if it works. But I do have a question though, about the IPX thingy, well, I was thinking about that myself too so I installed the IPX Protocols along with the netbios thingy. And I did the same for the WinMe machine as well. But for some reason it's still taking ages to copy a file, perhaps I have the IPX protocol installed but yet, win2k is still using the TCP/IP protocol to do the file transfers among my LAN? Now how would I tell my win2k to use only IPX to copy files thru my LAN?

by the way thanks for your great reply.

[Takashi]

geez, nope that didn't help at all... it's the same. Why is this??
I do have ipx/netbios and everything installed, took out that registery key, but still the same slow browsing and copying thru win2k<->winme boxes....

[Igor]

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The slow network browsing is due to Win2K. Delete this registry key on your Win2K machine:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

This does wonders on ME as well. i went from 45 seconds down to 2.