Speed up Windows 2000 access to your Network Places

Opening "Neighboring Computers" in Windows 2000 of some machines often waits for a few 10 seconds to be unbearable. Careful analysis will find that, among the computers found, there are both "printers" and "Scheduled tasks." When browsing your computer through My Network Places, Windows 2000 searches for your own shared directories, printers that can be shared as a network, and network-related scheduled tasks in the Task Scheduler, which is bound to affect browsing speed. Therefore, you should cancel the search for printers and scheduled tasks. The specific methods are as follows:

Open the registry and find Hkey_local_machine/software/microsoft/windows/current Version/explorer/remotecomputer/namespace, There are two branches below: One is 2227a280-3aea-1069-a2de-08002b30309d, "printer", and the other is D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF, which means "scheduled tasks." Delete these two primary keys, and then exit the registry without restarting the computer, and then open the "neighboring computer" in My Network Neighborhood again, and the browsing speed will be much faster. After a long-running discovery, deleting these items does not affect the execution of network printers and scheduled tasks.

In addition, a newly installed Windows 2000 system cannot browse other computers. For security reasons, Windows 2000 prohibits access to foreign computers in the default state. Click on "admin tools → Local Users and groups" to find guest users, remove the "account has been disabled" can be.