This is a great tweak. Before I found it, I was always smashing my head against the table waiting to view shares on other computers.
Basically, when you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer – a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end – not good!
Fortunately, it”s fairly easy to disable this process. First, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
in the Registry. Below that, there should be a key called:
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
Just delete this, and after a restart, Windows will no longer check for scheduled tasks – mucho performance improvement!