Troubleshooting Tweaks - Slowing down Windows Explorer

If your Windows Explorer slowing down from time to time, use the following registry extension between Begin and End:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"NoFileFolderConnection"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001

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or

click the icon below to save this file to your disk.

After you save the file to disk, double click on it and click Yes to add this patch to your registry (see picture 1).

Picture 1

 


Author:

Lex van der Horst

Date Added:

06-11-2004

Last Reviewed:

06-11-2004