Microsoft KB Archive/308457

= Visual Studio .NET Server Explorer takes a long time to show the data =

Article ID: 308457

Article Last Modified on 3/7/2006

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 Professional Edition, when used with:  Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0  Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q308457



SYMPTOMS
When you are running Microsoft Visual Studio .NET on a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0-based system and are using Server Explorer to explore a Windows 95,Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition-based system, most management data and management events operations for that system take a very long time to complete. These operations include expanding the nodes, adding classes to the Management Data node, and adding event queries to the Management Events node.

A similar problem may occur in other management applications that utilize Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) when the applications are connecting from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows Millennium Edition-based systems and establishing connections to multiple WMI namespaces at once.

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CAUSE
A problem in Distributed COM (DCOM) substantially increases the time it takes for an application to connect to a WMI namespace when connecting from a Windows NT 4.0 system to a Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows Millennium Edition-based system.

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RESOLUTION
For Windows NT 4.0 systems that are running Visual Studio .NET, you can work around this problem by using the following steps:
 * 1) Start the DCOM Configuration Utility (Dcomcnfg.exe).
 * 2) Click the Default Protocols tab.
 * 3) Move &quot;Connection-oriented TCP/IP&quot; to the top of the DCOM Protocols stack.
 * 4) Click OK.

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STATUS
The problem has been fixed in Windows 2000 and later versions of Microsoft Windows.

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