Windows xp slow accessing network drives

It's just too difficult and painful to access files over the WAN, and investing in a local file server is the best solution for us.

Over time, it can actually be much cheaper to buy a local file server, because your employees become a lot more productive in most cases. Pings are going fine from Location B to all different locations. Most of them take around 30ms time. That is very true, but so you think by adding more bandwidth to the location B internet would make any difference? By getting 25 meg of internet speed at location B if it is able to access excel file in sec then it will be good improvement as well. Remote desktop terminal server is also a very good option as we take backup of the file server daily.

As I said I really want to try something in a smaller budget than moving forward with buying a entire new server. While adding more bandwidth at Location B certainly would not hurt, I'm not positive that it will make that much difference. Maybe they can bump up your speed temporarily, and if the employees notice a big improvement, you can start paying for it monthly.

While that's considered "high speed", it still takes a quite a long time to open folders and files on the server.

So based on my experience, even a high speed connection gets bogged down when you're going through a VPN. A lot of this is dependent on your exact network setup. If the VPN connection and the server where you're trying to access files is in the same physical office, it may be a bit quicker.

But the point being, your mileage may vary. I don't think anyone could guarantee that your file access speeds over VPN will improve by upgrading the internet speed at location B, but it's probably worth a shot if you're on a tight budget.

Those are some really good suggestions. I will try to ask my ISP for 25Meg trial and see if that's make any difference. I second on you about it's not speed of the internet but the hops. Thanks a lot for all your suggestions. I do really appreciate it. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Shay: Thanks for your feedback. Glad to know that I was able to not only help you but I also saved a perfectly fine PC from getting tossed out of the 16th floor window :.

Thank you! I have struggled with the slow access to shares for a while. The difference is night and day. Thank you so much for this post and help! Thank you Zubair!! The single regedit entry steps 1 — 4 fixed it for me.

I noticed the problem after upgrading from Win10 to 20H2 I had problems with the upgrade itself, which disappeared once I uninstalled my antivirus, and reapplied 20H2.

Would you happen to know why? Cache is supposed to help you, but sometimes it does the exact opposite and slows things down. Thank you for this…! If anyone is still having this problem, then in my case, the problem PC was windows version. I tried all of the above steps but problem did not go away. After upgrading windows to 20H2 the latest the problem disappeared. Your email address will not be published.

Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Post navigation Previous Post. Next Post. On December 27, Hi Guys, I think I am hitting the same wall here. I am confused a bit Where do you do make this registry change? Hi Zubair, I think I found a solution to my problem. Glad to hear that it fixed your problem. I appreciate you providing the feedback. Your undo advice is incorrect. Yu Lei: Thank you for your feedback. Glad the tip worked for you.

Does anybody have a clue for this? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. This has been driving me crazy and your first fix worked for me! Leave a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. This div height required for enabling the sticky sidebar.

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Status Not open for further replies. I'm running a small office network of 11 computers. Only one computer that I'm aware of has the problem. The computer has full access to internet and all network printers, but is unable to access the server or any shared files on the other computers. I can ping all tested computers over the network without problem, as well as the default gateway, but get the error message "MsHome is unaccessable" when I click "view workgroup computers" I've reconfigured the network on this computer using the Network setup wizard, and after tweaking a few other things, I was able to get full access of the network from the computer, but upon the next start up, without any software changes, I'm again unable to acess the network.

I've tried repairing the connection both with the dropdown menu and through the cmd prompt. The network troubleshooter was no help, and I'm running out of ideas! Help me out! There are many things to check, but if you've run Network Wizard and checked they're all on the same workgroup, suggest best thing is check firewalls first as they are so often the problem 1.

Unplug from the Internet 2. Turn off computer firewalls on your computers 3. You must wait at least 5 mins or so as firewall changes aren't seen immediately on Microsoft Network 4. Check to see if problem exists.

I know that if there were a firewall problem, it would be in that computer in particular, because all others had no problems from the get go connecting. I disabled all firewalls and tried connecting and still had no luck. Then turn off all your computers this time i mean all. Once it;s started, start the other. And by rebooting with firewalls turned off should take care of "waiting 5 mins" problem.

There is a second issue about only one Master Browser among your computers but verifying below and then only starting the TWO in sequence with others off should spare you the effort of the add'l checking. Firewalls Turn off firewall on both computers.