Hi all I have been trying to solve a problem with XP clients connecting to a 2000 server, the problem that is that access to mapped drives from any XP client takes a long time to display or save. I have tried the namespace registry key deletion and that did nothing to help. Any body out there found a solution yet? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Fallen Angel

Slow logon to domain in XP Pro You may experience extremely long delays (up to 5 minutes) when logging into domains using Windows XP Pro. This is caused by the asyncronous loading of networking during the boot up process. This speeds up the login process in a stand-alone workstation by allowing the user to log in with cached logon credentials before the network is fully ready. To disable this "feature" and restore your domain logons to their normal speed, open the MMC and add the group policy snap-in. Under Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->System-->Logon, change "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to ENABLED. This can be fed to clients via a group policy from a Windows 2000 server by upgrading the standard policy template with the XP policy template. Since this is an XP only command, non-XP systems will ignore it in a domain distributed group policy.

I take it you mean the D6277990-4C6A-11CG18D87-00AA0060F5BF key for searching for Scheduled Tasks? Have you tried going into Explore's Tools -> Folder Options -> View and turning off Automatically Search for Comps and Printers? What about upping the connection timeout value, Q138365? Don't know if Q321169 would be of any help.

Thanks for the helpful responses, i shall try them as soon as im back on site. and will repost to let you know the outcome. thanks again both of you :) cheers Fallen Angel