Network places is slow

[Guest]

I have the same problem: my home network only has one desktop and one laptop
both running XP SP2 but My Network Places on my laptop is extremely slow (30
to 60 seconds) and keeps displaying old network shares although after 48
hours, non-available shares should be deleted. On my desktop non of these
problems exost.
A solution would be welcome

 

[TW]

This sounds like it could be a browser conflict, but I could of course be
wrong.

You can try stopping the computer browser service on the laptop but make
sure you have both computers in the same workgroup, thus forcing the laptop
to get the browse list from the desktop as the desktop will win a browser
election with no other browsers on the network.

Go to start-run-services.msc and stop the computer browser service on the
laptop.
Shut down both computers. Restart desktop. Restart laptop in that order.

Also make sure you have something shared on either the desktop or laptop or
both. Sharing a resource on either one will start the server service AND
announce the resource to the computer holding the browse list, thus
populating the network places.

This should work. It does on my network.
Post back if it doesn't.
TW

 

[Guest]

Sorry, but no effect.
I had already established that there is no browser conflict by using
browstat.exe

Could the problem be caused by the fact that my laptop connects regularly to
different wireless networks ?

The slow respons of my network places is but a symptom of the problems I
have with my PC's. I suppose the slow down of my network places is also the
reason for my other main problem: I am no longer able to synchronise folders
from my desktop to my laptop using "make available offline". This feature has
worked great for six months on my home network, and suddenly I began getting
errors "unable to make available xxx offline - incorrect function".