re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 9:04 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by T Garrett (1 messages posted) Having tried most of the helpful suggestions in this thread, my WinXP Pro and Win98 machines still didn't seem completely happy doing file transfers. Whenever I was using Windows Explorer (on the XP side) to initiate a file transfer (Copy, Paste, whatever), there would be almost a 1 minute lag before the operation even started! One of the Microsoft queries mentioned late in this forum recommended setting up a Mapped Network Drive (e.g. S:\ on the XP machine points indirectly to \\server\files folder on the 98 machine), instead of trying to navigate directly through Network Places. Once I did this, I found file operations start immediately (and the throughput seems faster), with no delay whatsoever. Before using this method, none of the network changes had really helped (not NetBIOS, NetBEUI, TCP/IP settings, registry hacks, NIC settings, etc.). So, now I let drive letter S (on my XP machine) map to a desired folder on the Win98 side, with a shortcut on my Desktop. I open that shortcut, and bingo, things go smoothly. Try it and see if that helps. Thanks to all who came before for their really well-thought-out hints! Only took me, um, 4 days to get anywhere with this obnoxious problem. Note: I never updated to Windows' Service Pack 1 for XP Pro, which might also have helped. - T Garrett Written in response to: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (Matthew Tilove: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 at 10:47 am) Responses to this message: re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (redsun: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 7:57 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (Matthew Tilove: Tue, Dec 11, 2001, 10:47 am) re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (Michael: Tue, Dec 11, 2001, 11:00 am) re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (Phil Docker: Tue, Feb 19, 2002, 5:46 pm) re: Network File sharing - Win 98 to Win XP (Tim LaRose: Wed, Mar 5, 2003, 6:10 pm) re: Network File sharing - Win 98 to Win XP (Jamie Boyt: Thu, May 22, 2003, 12:01 pm) re: Network File sharing - Win 98 to Win XP (A Grateful User: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 7:59 pm) re: Network File sharing - Win 98 to Win XP (compudude86: Sat, Nov 22, 2003, 4:15 pm) re: Network File sharing - 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