Faster Network Access

When you use My Network Places to browse
for other machines on your network, Windows
XP first checks for the scheduled tasks
on the target machine before listing the shared
resources present on the computer.
We can do a registry hack to avoid this delay. Invoke the
Registry Editor by typing regedit at the command line. Open the following
Registrykey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\