Network Scanning can take 3-5 minutes, Annoying.

RBraverman · Post by *RBraverman » 2016-02-17, 20:07 UTC

I've used TC for, well since he released it, and only recently have a problem with accessing the local network.
Click on the network icon (within TC of course) and it can take 3-5 minutes before it comes back with what is available.
Annoying.

hlloyge · Post by *hlloyge » 2016-02-17, 23:39 UTC

It works like a charm for me on windows network consisting of few computers at home. At work it took minute and half to scan for around 900 computers.
But! it took a few seconds less to windows themselves. I guess it's windows procedures that are slow, not TC.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-02-18, 12:40 UTC

I never use that [\] button for browsing other computers (it is much faster to type cd \\host) so I've set NethoodStyle=2 in wincmd.ini to move network computers from [\] to a subfolder and now [\] opens immediately.

RBraverman · Post by *RBraverman » 2016-02-18, 15:25 UTC

MVV wrote:I never use that [\] button for browsing other computers (it is much faster to type cd \\host) so I've set NethoodStyle=2 in wincmd.ini to move network computers from [\] to a subfolder and now [\] opens immediately.

So there's no fix, ok, what exactly does that option do?

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2016-02-18, 21:14 UTC

Just open help and read about it.

TOTALCMD.chm section 4.b wrote:NetHoodStyle=1
Style of the Network Neighborhood:
0: as provided by Windows, 1: also show XP-style subfolder "Workgroup", 2: only XP-style
Netwarebugfix=0 1: do NOT rename files on remote drive

There are also some other NetHood options that you should try to play with.

RBraverman · Post by *RBraverman » 2016-03-22, 20:04 UTC

MVV wrote:Just open help and read about it.
TOTALCMD.chm section 4.b wrote:NetHoodStyle=1
Style of the Network Neighborhood:
0: as provided by Windows, 1: also show XP-style subfolder "Workgroup", 2: only XP-style
Netwarebugfix=0 1: do NOT rename files on remote drive
There are also some other NetHood options that you should try to play with.

Now that I've played with this ... why is the x32 Win7 system I have in the corner, running x32 TC MUCH faster when looking for computers on the network?

This is slow, slower than any other machine I have - but it's the only x64 running at the moment. I haven't dragged out my notebook to see how that does.