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July 2008 |
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If you use a Windows network then you may have encountered the problem of slow network response when using the recommended Network Neighborhood or My Network Places shortcuts. The problem is that it seems to take forever for all of the machines on your network to be listed so that you can then connect to one of them. There are complex technical issues which explain why this happens but it is frustrating when it happens to you. If you know the network name of the computer you wish to connect to then there is a much faster way to go directly to that computer, without listing every other computer on the network. If, for example, you wish to connect to a computer whose network name is CADLABPC12 then you can use the following procedure -
If the network name is correct and the computer is online then you should be taken straight to that machine. You can use this procedure for any network machine, simply prefix the machine name with the double backslash "\\" This procedure will work on all Windows versions and can be a great timesaver.
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