Browsing files on a network folder is extremely slow

Posted under Networking, Software

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I was trying to access a network share in a small peer-to-peer network and it would take between 30-60 seconds just to show the contents of the folder. The folder did contain a few thousand files but it still should not have taken this long to populate the folder.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

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