I searched the exact same way you did. In fact I visited most of those links on that page. Those solutions didn't work on my test station so I had to move onto more drastic measures. By posting on here it usually means I couldn't find the solution on my own or through searching the web.

If someone has a patch that fixes this issue I am all ears, but so far no one seems to have a end all solution for this and I tried a lot of them. Some said a hotfix worked, some said removing network shortcuts or modifying the registry works. In each instance I saw people who said it worked and others that said it is still slow as molasses.

My solution was to stop a service which as far as I can tell doesn't really do anything good or bad for the computers. But in my case it was being a bad service and it had to be stopped

Thanks for everyones advice and support. I really do appreciate it.