Increasing Connection speed :
Some of us may find that after installing Windows XP, the Internet connection gets slower . A possible reason for this is the QoS installed . This services reserves 20 per cent of the bandwidth for itself, even with QoS disabled . In order to remove this reserved quota , you will have to make sure you are logged on as Administrator . Go to Start – > Run and type ‘gpedit.msc‘ . Expand the ‘local computer policy’ branch, the ‘administrative templates’ branch , and the ‘ network’ branch . Highlight the ‘QoS Packet Scheduler ‘ in the left window . In the right window, double click the ‘limit reservable bandwidth’ setting tab, check ‘ enabled ‘ , and change the ‘bandwidth limit %’ to read 0 . You should notice an immediate boost in you internet connection speed .
Speeding up network Browsing :
A bug in the windows 2000 causes the scheduled tasks folder to be searched , whenever the user browses network drives . While Microsoft has developed a fix for this bug , the fix slows down the browsing of Microsoft networks . In order to fix the problem , go to Start -> Run and type in regedit and press [enter] . Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Exporer /RemoteComputer/NameSpace. Then find the key
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}.
Right Click on it and delete it . Restart the computer .