Terrebly slow shares acces (1 Viewer)

[Bram]

MediaPortal Version: MediaPortal 0.2 with latest SVN
Windows Version: Windows XP SP2
CPU Type: AMD Sempron 2800+ @ 2.2Ghz
HDD: 1.5TB total Maxtor
Memory: 2GB DDR 400
Motherboard: ASUS s754 AGP
Motherboard Chipset: Via
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: ASUS nVidia 6200AGP (256MB)
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
Sound Card AC3:
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1. TV Card: AverTV PVR 250MCE
1. TV Card Type: Analog
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3. TV Card:
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MPEG2 Video Codec: nVidia PureVideo
MPEG2 Audio Codec: nVidia PureVideo
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Unknown brand ATX Mediacasing
Cooling:
Power Supply: 200 Watt
Remote: Microsoft IR remote
TV: Philips Matchline 82cm 4:3 CRT (1024-768)
TV - HTPC Connection: Composite

I've bought a modded XBOX two weeks ago and configured it to acces my network shares. The thing I noticed immediately is the time it needs to acces the shares. It's almost not noticable in XBMC. There is no noticable difference in acces time for local files and shares.
In MP accessing shares (local and in the local network) always takes a while (sometimes 2 seconds, sometimes 15 or more). It makes MP feel slow and is a bit anoying sometimes. My computer is more then fast enough.

Is there any possible solution? A speedup will realy do MP good!

 

[een_mq]

Hi there,

As the xbox accesses the share fine, your network should be set up correctly so there's no problem there...

There’s a common problem in Windows XP that can make network browsing very slow.

If the 'My Network Places' folder contains a shortcut to a network share, then each refresh of the explorer window will attempt to read icon information from every file in the remote location, causing the system to slow to a crawl.

Removing all shortcuts from 'My Network Places' will return the system response to normal.

Every time you open a file via a UNC name, Windows XP will automatically add another shortcut to the 'My Network Places' folder - so the issue tends to get worse over time.

You can prevent the automatic addition of shortcuts by setting HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRecentDocsNetHood to 1

See how you go...

 

[Bram]

Thank you! I'll try this when I'm at home.