No Microsoft Network Services

[CarlB]

Help! Please note that I am not that experienced.

Symptoms:

XP: Suddenly network folders open agonisingly slowly.

Desktop computer and wife's laptop are quite OK but my laptop hopeless.

Cannot add a network place.

Set-up: Wireless Network that is otherwise fine.

Buffalo Link-Station HDD wired to router: When click on option View Shares: message: "The procedure entry point could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll". Then "Network can not be found. Confirm network cabling and connection".

Run: \\ip for Link-Station: "The network path was not found."

All shared network folders are listed in My Network Places. All network connections are listed but:

My Network places: Add a network place: etc: Expand Entire Network: No icon for Microsoft Network Services. Where did that go?

Click on View Network Computers: No response, other than the cursor changes to the "hand symbol" for a couple of minutes.

I have uninstalled and re-installed client for MSN services and all of the other network services, to no effect.

Microsoft say OEM so have to pay or go to Toshiba. Toshiba say "Don't do networks".

I have searched the web for "Microsoft Network Services icon gone for a wander": lots of similar results but nothing really the same.

Please, please advise.

PS: maybe not connected, but System Tray icons now change with the weather.

[TravisO]

Well if you save the following text to a .REG file and import in with RegEdit it might help you out. I've been using these tweaks on my boxes for about 6 years now.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00



;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  Questionable (but stable) changes, remove the semi-colons on the registry lines to enable
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; Disables the "click" sound when you click a link in IE
;
;[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating\.current]

;
; XP and 2k3
; Removes links folder from favorites.
; Delete C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Favorites\Links after applying this tweak.
;
;[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]
;"LinksFolderName"=""




;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  Improves system security
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; 2000/XP/2003 Prevents DOS Synch flood attacks to your machine by rejecting bogus Synch packets by a computer that is flooding you
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]
"SynAttackProtect"=dword:00000002
"TcpMaxHalfOpen"=dword:00000100
"TcpMaxHalfOpenRetried"=dword:00000080

;
; Remove the file association so that when you double click on a .reg file, it will automatically merge with your registry
; Instead, if you want to merge registry files, load "regedit.exe" and choose... File > Import
;
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.reg\]


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  System Speedup
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; XP and 2k3
; Speeds up viewing of network shares (that are on 98/ME boxes) by disabling remote schedular check (wtf does it do that?!).
;
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]

;
; XP and 2k3
; Kills services after 5 seconds, if it is hung, instead of default 20.  Faster shutdown (no more mystery shutdown hangs)
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control]
"WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="5000"

;
; XP and 2k3
; This allows boot files to be placed optimally on the hard-drive for faster boots.
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction]
"Enable"="Y"



;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  Memory Optimization
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; XP and 2k3
; Opens 16-bit apps in a seperate memory space, this increases stability when dealing with 16-bit apps.
;
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WOW]
"DefaultSeparateVDM"="Yes"



;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  UI changes (remove annoying stuff)
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; XP and 2k3
; Removes arrow on shortcuts
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile]
"IsShortcut"=-
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile]
"IsShortcut"=-


;
; XP and 2k3
; Removes Briefcase, Document, and Rich-Text-Document from New Menu when you right click the background
;
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bfc\ShellNew]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc\ShellNew]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\ShellNew]

;
; Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz]
"NoRun"=dword:00000001

;
; Disables Windows Tour bubble popup
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]
"RunCount"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]
"RunCount"=dword:00000000


;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
;  Feature adding
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;
; XP and 2k3
; Increases the number of concurrent downloads from a website to 10 or more (default 2).
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000010
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000010

;
; This will add "Services" to the right-click menu of "My Computer" 
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services] 
@=hex(2):53,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,00,00 
"SuppressionPolicy"=dword:4000003c 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\services\command] 
@=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73, 00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,6d,00,6d,00,63,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00, 65,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,20,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52, 00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00, 32,00,5c,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,76,00,69,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,2e,00,6d,00,73, 00,63,00,20,00,2f,00,73,00,00,00

;
; This adds the "Open Command Window Here" for the right click menu on folders
;
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd]
@="Open Command Window Here"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd\command]
@="cmd.exe /k \"cd %L\""

;
; Sets Outlook XP to minimize to the Sys Tray
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Preferences]
"MinToTray"=dword:00000001

;
; Sets Outlook 2003 to minimize to the Sys Tray
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Preferences]
"MinToTray"=dword:00000001

;
; Sets Outlook 2007 to minimize to the Sys Tray
;
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences]
"MinToTray"=dword:00000001