Network Neighborhood Browsing Slow

January 12th, 2010 Category: General, VMWare

I often experienced the problem that a click on the network neighborhood in Windows needs very long. This may have several reasons. I recognized that in my case it is related with the VMWare Workstation installation.

VMWare Workstation installs two virtual network adapters, one is used for host-only networking and the other for NAT networking. This virtual adapters may cause the network neighborhood to become very slow.

To come around this annoying slow network neighborhood I know two possibilities:

  1. If you only use bridged networking for your virtual machines
    => disable both network adapters in the control panel
  2. If you use host-only or NAT for your virtual machines
    =>disable the “Client for Microsoft Networks” and “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” protocols in the properties of the two virtual network adapters

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