92. Speed up Network Browsing in Windows XP By default, when you attempt to browse another machine's shared folders over a network, Windows XP attempts to check for any relevant scheduled tasks on the remote machine before providing a list of shared folders. This can add a significant delay to your browsing time. Using the registry, you can disable this somewhat pointless behaviour. To do this open Regedit and navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Remote Computer\Namespace. Delete the key '{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}' Close Regedit and restart.