re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at 7:57 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by redsun (12 messages posted) I found a trick that works...i reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled everything on my old computer. Since this problem involves two computers than you can all transfer your important files to one of them (since the transfer windows 98 to xp is fast)and reformat your hard drive. Now it works for me..still wonder what was the program that started the problem... On Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 9:04 am, T Garrett wrote: > > > >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: re: File sharing between Win 98 and Win XP (T Garrett: Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 9:04 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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