How To Speed Up Network Browsing

It seems that communication between network computers under Windows has some lacks slowing down browsing. Here are some things that you can do in order to speed up the network browsing.

Note: Because the tricks require registry editing, make sure you backup the registry before you edit it.

Click Start -> Run...
Type regedit.
Hit Enter.
Disable Scheduled Task and Printer Checking

By default, a Windows XP machine connecting to a Windows 95/98/Me computer will search for scheduled tasks or enabled printers on the network computer.

1. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> RemoteComputer -> NameSpace.
2. Find a key named {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}.
3. Right click on it and delete it.
4. Find a key named {2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}.
5. Right click on it and delete it.

Raise the threshold level for the requested buffer

1. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Services -> lanmanworkstation -> parameters.
2. Right click in the right pane and select New -> DWORD Value.


3. Name this value SizReqBuf and provide a decimal value of 16384.
Increase Network Redirector Buffers

1. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Services -> lanmanworkstation -> parameters.
2. Right click in the right pane and select New -> DWORD Value.
3. Name this MaxCmds and give it a value between 0 and 255. It is recommended to choose the value of 64.
4. Right click in the right pane and select New -> DWORD Value.
5. Name this MaxThreads and give it the exact value as MaxCmds.
Now in order the settings to take effect you will have to restart the computer.