Search for Network Folders and Printers
This setting controls whether Windows should automatically attempt to locate available file shares and printers by crawling the local network.
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'NoNetCrawling' using the settings below.
Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.
Settings:
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
Name: NoNetCrawling
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = Search Enabled, 1 = Search Disabled)
Open your registry and find the key below.
Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value called 'NoNetCrawling' using the settings below.
Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.
Settings:
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
Name: NoNetCrawling
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: (0 = Search Enabled, 1 = Search Disabled)