There is a lot of issues which can forse windows to become very slow in network browsing. But, statistic said that the most problems with speed arise from network shares with a lot of files. Here are several tips which you can try to increase your network browsing speed:

1. Remove current shortcuts in My Network Places!

2. Change the registry so shared folders on remote computers are not automatically added to My Network Places when you even open a document from that shared folder:

1. Start Regedit
2. Create a DWORD value:
3. HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \ NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1.
4. I have also seen setting the following help as well:
   HKEY_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer \ UseDesktopIniCache to 1.

3. Increase the amount of data is buffered at one time to send to a client. On the computer with the shared directory:

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ LanmanServer \ Parameters
3. Create a DWORD Key called SizReqBuf
4. Give it a value of Hex FFFF

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