Does Running Boot Camp Solve Mavericks' Windows-Networking Problems?

Anyone running Mavericks in a Windows-server environment knows how agonizingly slow it is populating a window on the server if there are more than a few dozen files in it (we have 25-30 folders on our Windows server that have more than 10,000 files in each one, and they are all images files with sizes between 5 and 50 MBs each). When we open a folder that's on the server in Mavericks' Finder, it can take up to 30 minutes to populate that window. We have since reverted to Mountain Lion and although it's still slow to populate those windows, it's nowhere near as slow as Mavericks, and once the window populates, as long as we don't shut down the computer, the next time we open that window it populates within seconds (I'm guessing that some sort of cache file is created).
Does anyone know if running Windows in Boot Camp (or Parallels) would speed up the Windows-server window population problem? I'm guessing it might but I'm not sure if the computer is still connecting to the server using the Mac networking protocol. If I use my Windows 7 PC the server windows populate almost instantly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Lloyd

From the Boot Camp System Requirements page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634
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Windows 8
64-bit
Windows 7
64-bit
Windows 7
32-bit
Windows Vista
64-bit
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32-bit
Windows XP
32-bit
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MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
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MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009)
4
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MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009)
4
DVD
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MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
4
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MacBook (13-inch, Early 2008)
4
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MacBook (13-inch, Late 2007)
4
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MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2007)
4
DVD
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MacBook (13-inch, Late 2006)
4
DVD
DVD
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2006)
4
DVD
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Your computer supports Windows 7 32bit with Boot Camp 4.

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